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Landless households in rural Europe, 1600-1900 /
The numbers of landless people -- those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings -- grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto been rel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Boydell studies in rural history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The numbers of landless people -- those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings -- grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto been relatively neglected, a gap which this volume, covering Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France and Spain from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, aims to fill, making creative use of a diverse range of unexplored sources. Instead of concentrating on the well-documented cases of landholding peasants, it explores the many different experiences of the numerous rural landless. It explains how their households were formed (often in the face of economic difficulties and official hostility), how all the members of a family contributed to its survival, how the landless related to other social groups and negotiated access to vital resources, and how they adapted as rural society was changed by war, politics, agrarian and industrial development, government policy and welfare systems.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800106031 1800106033 9781800106048 1800106041 |