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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fertig, Christine (Editor), Paping, Richard (Editor), French, Henry, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2022.
Series:Boydell studies in rural history ; 3.
Subjects:
1600-1900
Peasants > Europe > History.
Rural poor > Europe > History.
Peasants > Europe > Social conditions.
Rural poor > Europe > Social conditions.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Europe > Histoire.
Paysannerie > Europe > Conditions sociales.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Europe > Conditions sociales.
Peasants
Peasants > Social conditions
Rural conditions
Rural poor
Rural poor > Social conditions
Social conditions
Europe > Rural conditions.
Europe > Social conditions > 17th century.
Europe > Social conditions > 1789-1900.
Europe > Conditions rurales.
Europe > Conditions sociales > 17e siècle.
Europe > Conditions sociales > 1789-1900.
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French
  • 1. The Treballadors of Girona : evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries) / Arnau Barquer i Cerdà
  • 2. The squatter economy of the English countryside : building new landless communities in England c. 1600-1900 / John Broad
  • 3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600-1900 / Richard Paping
  • 4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s : access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi-landless households, c. 1850-1900 / Wouter Ronsijn
  • 5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders : the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500-1900) / Dieter Bruneel
  • 6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760-1835 : A comparison of two southern English rural communities / Henry French
  • 7. Landless rural households in France 1852-1910 / Nadine Vivier
  • 8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime : non-landed households in seventeenth-century Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström
  • 9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio-economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland / Merja Uotila
  • 10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions : Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Margareth Lanzinger
  • 11. Cottages, barns and bake houses : Landless rural households in North-western Germany in the eighteenth century / Christine Fertig.

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