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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blum, Jerome
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social classes.
Rural conditions.
Peasants.
Feudalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Classes sociales > Europe > Histoire.
Social classes > Europe > History.
Feudalism > Europe > History.
Peasants > Europe > History.
Europe.
Europe > Conditions rurales.
Europe > Rural conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Table of Contents; Part 1: The Traditional Order; II. Peasant Diets; III. Beggars, Vagabonds, and Runaways; IV. Prosperous Peasants; Part 2: Transition; II. New Interest in Agriculture; III. The Expansion of Farm Land; IV. Improved Field Systems; V. Enclosure and Consolidation; VI. Improved and New Crops; Part 3: Emancipation.

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