Johann von Leers

“After seeing history for so long as the history of dynasties, cultural history, and intellectual history of the various foreign spiritual currents in our country, it is necessary for once to resume the attempt that has already been made less often to present the history of the German peasantry, and its path through the centuries… The history of the German peasantry, however, is at the same time a history of German rebelliousness, a struggle for freedom of the soil and freedom of the race’s own development.” (From the introduction.)

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