1634: the ram rebellion is the seventh published work in the 1632 alternate history book series, and is the third work to establish what is best considered as a 'main plot line or thread' of historical speculative focus that are loosely organized and classified geographically.the initial main thread is called the 'western and north-central europe thread' (encompassing northern and western germany, denmark, england, france, the low countries, sweden and the baltic); the second plot line, encompassing events in italy, spain, the mediterranean region, and france, the 'south european thread', and this book can be considered the starting novel of the 'south-central/south-east thread' being set in southern germany, austria, bavaria, and bohemia.this geographically organized plot thread actually began in ring of fire in flint's novelette 'the wallenstein gambit' which is set in bohemia, austria, and germany, which tied into stories in various grantville gazettes.unlike most works in the 1632 series, much of this book is written from the standpoint of common people 'in the street', including germans trying to cope with grantville, west virginia, up-timers trying to cope with their new world around grantville, and both trying to deal with the problems of two widely different cultures meeting in the new united states of europe.these merging dynamics are the milieu shaping stories flint felt necessary to include even though they are set in 1631–1632.their impact extends throughout the book and into 1634, as well as across political boundaries and battle lines as the historical imperatives developed in this book extend into the direct sequel 1634: the bavarian crisis.the short novel that concludes the work begins in late august 1633 and overlaps many of the shorter works earlier in the book.two of the three other books set in 1634 refer to the events in the work (usually as the 'troubles in franconia') setting its canonical place in the 'greater' neo-historical international politics covered in the other two works.in the flint stories which are sandwiched around the birdie tales, mike stearns goes back to school under the tutelage of melissa mailey.stearns has a problem, he has to get a handle on likely complications from the local population, as the stories are set just a few days after he is elected as chairman of the emergency committee.as a result, mailey gives stearns several very thick history books on european history in the era.birdie newhouse has an immediate problem, he's a farmer with most of his farm's arable land 300 years off and a continent away.the stories by gorg huff and paula goodlett explore the alien land practices and ownership of down-time germany as birdie seeks to gain additional lands.land sales are rare; worse, the lawyers are in control and there are three general levels of vested interest: the owners-in-fact, a variable number of other claimants, and the tenants.the tenants have certain rights and obligations over and above monetary rent while leases are generally for the lesser of three generations or 99 years.in between the owner in fact and the tenants is usually a monetary transaction which gives the rents to any number of claimants—depending upon the finances of the landholding family.the claimants all have a say in the farm operation to some extent, as do the occupants of the farm villages, which also have the right to disapprove or accept new co-farmers, for the land is farmed cooperatively with another set of obligations and entitlements.birdie can't just go and buy a piece of land, he has to buy it from three different and diverse groups of people... and get them all to agree to terms.
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