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Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. 1988. Cloth, octavo, 412 pp. (Subject: Germany.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 412pp., not illustrated. Book shows mild shelfwear to wrap, binding tight, two observed ink lines in margin (pages 57 and 75), otherwise clean. No DJ.

Cambridge University Press, 1988-08-26. Hardcover. Good.

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0521350417 . Black hardcvoers with gilt titles to the spine. In Very Good+ condition, pages are tight & unmarked and there is heavy wear to the cover top edges. "This book focuses on "poor students", young men in eighteenth-century Germany who owed their studies to charity, who formed a substantial minority within the theology faculties, and who entered careers in the clergy, the academic schools, and the universities. Professor La Vopa shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience central to the lives of many celebrated intellectuals as well as many of the elite." ; 9.20 X 6.30 X 1.30 inches; 412 pages .

Cambridge University Press, 1988. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved dust wrapper that has faded a little to spine, bookplate identifying previous owner on front pastedown else the text is clean and free of markings, 412pp.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany.

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 424 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Poor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe, which raised socially and politically sensitive questions. In addition to reconstructing the experience of poor students, this 1988 book uncovers the prescriptive norms inherent in both negative and positive perceptions of them.

Cambridge University Press, 8/26/1988. Hardcover. New. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily.

Cambridge University Press, 1988. hbk viii, 412 pp lacks dust jacket now in acetate jacket text is excellent as new

Cambridge University Press, 1988-08-26. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Cambridge University Press, 2002-06-26. paperback. New. 5x1x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1988. Hardcover. New. 432 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches.

Cambridge University Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing