Agrarian Development and Social Change in Eastern Europe, 14th-19th Centuries
Agrarian Development and Social Change in Eastern Europe, 14th-19th Centuries

Author: Péter Gunst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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What was 'Eastern European' about the historical development of Eastern Europe? How is the region to be defined? And, specifically, where was Hungary to be situated in relation to it? These are the questions underlying the studies in this volume. In the first part, Professor Gunst sets out to analyse some of the characteristics of the economic and social history of Eastern Europe. He then focuses on Hungary and argues that the course of its agrarian development, in particular, has since the Middle Ages been primarily shaped by the influence and military challenge from the West. The most important factor in this, however, was the mass immigration of German peasants, which had a far-reaching impact on village and community systems, and patterns of taxation and crop rotation.

Agrarian Development and Social Change in Eastern Europe, 14th-19th Centuries
Agrarian Development and Social Change in Eastern Europe, 14th-19th Centuries

Author: Péter Gunst

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1040231721

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What was ’Eastern European’ about the historical development of Eastern Europe? How is the region to be defined? And, specifically, where was Hungary to be situated in relation to it? These are the questions underlying the studies in this volume. In the first part, Professor Gunst sets out to analyse some of the characteristics of the economic and social history of Eastern Europe. He then focuses on Hungary and argues that the course of its agrarian development, in particular, has since the Middle Ages been primarily shaped by the influence and military challenge from the West. The most important factor in this, however, was the mass immigration of German peasants, which had a far-reaching impact on village and community systems, and patterns of taxation and crop rotation.

Workers, Women, and Social Change in Poland, 1870–1939
Workers, Women, and Social Change in Poland, 1870–1939

Author: Anna Zarnowska

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-14

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1000939359

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The studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers' communities, and the accompanying transformations in social status, family structure, and collective life and culture of the workers. An especial focus is the cultural transformations which occurred at the time of the 1905-1907 revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, incorporating it into tsarist Russia. In parallel with this, Professor Zarnowska has been concerned to examine the gender-determined inequalities of the life opportunities of women and men, and how these altered as social modernisation in Poland progressed. She looks at the changing legal and social status of women and their life chances, as well as the emergence of new social models of women's roles. Several studies are also devoted to the impact exerted by urban civilisation, as well as the growing professional activity of women upon the changes to cultural norms regulating the relations between women and men, as well as the development of women's aspirations in the family, society and culture.

Backwardness and Modernization
Backwardness and Modernization

Author: Jacek Kochanowicz

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780754659051

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The subject of this book is the economic backwardness of Poland and Eastern Europe in the modern era. The studies in the first part analyse various aspects of the region's economic and social history in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries; those in the second part deal with the change following the fall of state socialism. Professor Kochanowicz here argues that, for understanding the present, it is necessary to take into consideration historical legacies.

East European Nationalism, Politics and Religion
East European Nationalism, Politics and Religion

Author: Peter F. Sugar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1040244289

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The multi-national region of Europe situated between the German-speaking lands and those of the former Soviet Union has witnessed many varied manifestations of nationalism over the last two centuries. Professor Sugar has been in the forefront of those seeking to understand and explain these Eastern European nationalisms, and eleven of his essays on the subject are included in this second selection of his studies. The first two essays deal with problems of ethnicity and its specific manifestations in the region; the next three present the growth of national antagonisms during the 19th century. The third, and longest, section then sets out to examine the interaction of fully developed nationalism in Eastern Europe with the various political movements and religious organizations that impacted upon these lands.

From 'Civil Society' to 'Europe'
From 'Civil Society' to 'Europe'

Author: Grazyna Skapska

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-05-23

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9004192077

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Drawing on the sociological theory of reflexive modernization and the doctrine of liberal democracy, this book debates the formation of postcommunist constitutionalism. Examination of Poland, in comparison with other postcommunist countries, leads to a new theory of reflexive constitutionalism.

Feeding the World
Feeding the World

Author: Giovanni Federico

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-12-16

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1400837723

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In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.

Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization
Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization

Author: Peter Hanns Reill

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 6155053022

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Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects. In this sense the debate on globalization is framed as part of a larger and more crucial discourse that tries to account for the essential dynamics—economic, social, political and cultural—between metropolitan areas and their peripheries.

Oikos and Market
Oikos and Market

Author: Stephen Gudeman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1782386963

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Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume’s six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.

The Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750-900
The Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750-900

Author: Thomas S. Noonan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1040245811

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Professor Noonan here sets out to examine what Islamic silver coins (dirhams) reveal about the great trade between the Islamic world, European Russia, and the Baltic during the early Viking Age. Particular attention is devoted to the origins of this international commerce and the role of such peoples as the Vikings and Khazars. As he shows, the study of these coins also throws new light on mint output in the ’Abbasid caliphate, the historical significance of specific dirham hoards, and how the patterns of trade evolved during the course of the ninth century.