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The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe /
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the transformation of the old rural order to the modern class society. While historians have studied this transition as it occurred in individual countries, Jerome Blum offers the first view of it as a European experience tha transcended political fr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
5095 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part One. The Traditional Order
- 1 The Seigniors
- 2 The Peasants
- 3 The Obligations of the Peasantry
- 4 The Privileges of the Seigniors
- 5 Peasants, Large, Middling and Small
- 6 The Retardation of Agriculture: Techniques and Implements
- 7 The Retardation of Agriculture: Crops and Livestock
- 8 The Rural Economy
- 9 The Condition of the Peasantry
- Part Two: Transition
- 10 Absolute Monarchy and the Nobility
- 11 First Attempts at Reform
- 12 New Directions in Agriculture
- 13 The Improvers
- 14 The Old Order Attacked and Defended
- 15 Peasant Unrest
- Part Three: Emancipation
- 16 Background of the Emancipation
- 17 The Reforms
- 18 Pluses and Minuses
- 19 From Order to Class
- List of Works Cited
- Index