Contents -- Introduction -- I: HIERARCHY AND COMMUNITY -- 1. Foundations of Continuity: Pomeranian Agriculture and Landownership from the Reform Era to World War II -- Agriculture and Industrial Underdevelopment -- Noble Landownership and Marriage Patterns -- 2. Continuity Survives Revolution: Pomeranian Conservatism from the Reform Era to Stabilization -- A New Beginning? -- 3. Power and Obligation: Social Relations in the Estate Villages After the Revolution -- The Estate Community: From the Center to the Margins -- Born to Rule, Born to Serve -- The Politics of Proximity: The Referendum on Expropriation -- Personal Authority and Modernity: The Compatibility of Opposites -- 4. Social Constraints and Political Limitations: Pomerania's Evangelical Church -- Secularization Defied: Pomeranian Protestantism's Rural Roots -- The Sins of the Cities: Sectarianism and Moral Decline -- II: A WORLD COLLAPSES -- 5. Pomeranian Estate Owners, the Rural People Movement, and the Young Plan Referendum -- From Weakness to Disaster: Pomeranian Agriculture After Stabilization -- Political Pressures: The Dissolution of the Manorial Districts and the Left's Resurgence -- Peasant Wars and Junker Initiatives -- 6. Fluid Boundaries: Pomeranian Conservatism and the Nazi Onslaught -- Radicalism and Respectability: The Spread of Nazi Influence -- Succumbing to Right Radicalism: The Evangelical Church Relents -- Epilogue: Pyrrhic Victory: Pomeranian Conservatism in the Third Reich -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.