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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Starting Point -- 2. Land and People -- War and Peace -- Emigration -- The Logic of Population Pressure -- 3. Agriculture and Industry -- Farming and Labour -- The Artisanate -- Outsiders -- Commerce -- Professions -- Local Positions -- Industry -- 4. Heirs and Heiresses -- Malthus and Oedipus -- Inheritance -- Can The Oedipal Model Be Saved? -- 5. Malthusians and Neomalthusians -- Illegitimacy -- The Sartoris -- Age at First Marriage -- 6. Natural Fertility and Family Limitation -- The Classical Theory of Family Limitation -- Estimating the Percentage Limiting -- The Course of Marital Fertility in Grafenhausen, Kappel, and Rust -- 7. Proprietors and Notables -- Fertility Control for Farming and Labour -- Family Limitation among Artisans -- Other Occupations -- Notables -- 8. Fragmentation and Accumulation -- The Refined Morcellement Hypothesis -- The Land Market -- The Lifetime Career of Landholding -- Grafenhausen and Kappel Compared -- 9. Rich and Poor -- Grafenhausen -- Kappel -- Rust -- The Refined Morcellement Hypothesis Evaluated -- 10. Subjects and Citizens -- The Ruster Rebellion -- The Reichenweier Tithe -- The Restless Minds of Grafenhausen -- The Revolution of 1848 -- 11. Anticlericals and Ultramontanes -- Models of Secularization -- Church and State -- The Jewish Community in Rust -- Old Catholicism in Kappel -- Federal Elections 1868-1912 -- 12. Localities and Parties -- Notable Politics 1871-1901 -- The Fertility of Electors -- Party Politics 1905-1920 -- Did Politics Matter? -- 13. Innovation and Diffusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book analyses the earliest manifestation of family limitation among Germans, and links that innovation to local patterns of economic and political independence.