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| 1. |  € 71,00 | EAN-13: 9782503579238 M. R. Congost
Agrarian Change and Imperfect Property. Emphyteusis in Europe (16th to 19th centuries)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2018 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 71,00 | | Descrizione | This book is situated at the crossroads of two recurring themes in rural history: agrarian contracts and property rights. Emphyteusis is at the heart of agrarian history in that it brings together agricultural history and the nature of social relations in traditional societies. Despite this, many such contracts have been blithely ignored, or unjustly dismissed, either because they are hard to identify, given the many variants that existed, or because, as a form of divided property, they are generally perceived in a negative light.Nevertheless, emphyteusis is to be found everywhere, even in regions which deny its existence, and it is far from being obsolete. Rather, it is flourishing, prospering and long-lived, particularly in urban areas. Emphyteusis has a long history and has played a central role, sometimes misleading, but always crucial, in the process of agricultural development. It has held sway as a substitute when access to property has been impossible, and as a source of conflicts has often revealed the nature of power relations between property owners on the one hand, whether seigneurial or not, and cultivators, short-term and long-term tenants on the other. The different chapters in this volume illuminate these multiple facets and forms of this type of contract and imperfect property rights. Though the focus is on Mediterranean societies, the questions raised have relevance far beyond this specific area. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. | € 62,00 | EAN-13: 9782503532288 A. Antoine
Agricultural specialisation and rural patterns of development
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2016 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 62,00 | | Descrizione | In agricultural history, specialisation is usually considered as progress, turning peasants into market-orientated farmers and allowing them to escape from self-sufficiency. Recent developments in the field of productivist agriculture and the recent rise of alternative agriculture cast doubt on this conventional concept of agricultural specialisation. Several questions arise: Did specialisation necessarily mean that farms concentrated on a single product? Was it always a great step forward? Did it occur in the same form in earlier centuries as in contemporary economies?The chapters of this book draw attention to several factors relevant to processes of specialisation, such as markets, transport, and the natural environment. The contributions deal with regions in 10 countries of Europe, from Sweden to Spain and from England to Bulgaria, and with periods between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. They suggest several conclusions. Specialisation can take place in various forms, ranging from focussing on a single major cash crop to giving preference to a combination of products. This is true both at the level of an individual farm as at a regional level. Specialisation did not always improve the farmers? standard of living. And it was neither a linear nor an irreversible process. This can be observed in periods of war, but also in recent developments in post-communist countries. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 3. | € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9782503548043 G. Fertig
Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2015 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | This book is a collection of essays on social networks, social capital, and kinship in historical and contemporary rural societies. They span a wide range of European countries and historical situations, from early modern Flanders and Italy to present-day Austria and Armenia. All the essays describe in detail how people on the countryside connected with one another in formal or informal relations. In doing so, the authors use and critically discuss methods of historical interpretation, social network analysis, and econometrics. The book analyses these topics in three steps. First, the authors address whether social relations can be of economic use. Secondly, they examine the institutional conditions for such a conversion of social into economic capital, reconstructing the often unexpected ways in which the economic and social spheres were connected both in ?pre-modern? and in ?modern? settings. Thirdly, they show how political institutions were constructed out of social networks.Georg Fertig is professor of economic and social history at Halle University in Germany. He has worked extensively on 18th and 19th-century historical demography and agrarian history. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 4. | € 62,00 | EAN-13: 9782503545165 J. Broad
Wealth and Poverty in European Rural Societies from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2014 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 62,00 | | Descrizione | This book sheds new light on old problems of wealth, poverty and material culture in rural societies. Much of the debate has concentrated on north-west Europe and the Atlantic world. This volume widens the geographic range to compare less well known areas, with case studies on the Mediterranean world (Catalonia and Greece), from central Europe (Bohemia and Hungary), and from the Nordic countries (Denmark). Methodologically, several papers link the possession of goods to the use of room space, while others highlight the importance of the channels for the circulation of goods, problems of stocks and flows of goods, and the complexities of urban/rural difference. Finally, this book seeks to stimulate new comparative studies in living standards and lifestyles by providing an overview of achievements up till now.
John Broad is visiting academic at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge. He has published on rural society and poverty in England, and his current research interests include a book on English rural housing, and large-scale surveys of population, religion, and landholding in England in the eighteenth century.
Anton Schuurman is associate professor of Rural History at Wageningen University. He has published on the history of material culture and rural transformations in the Netherlands. Currently he is writing a book on the processes of modernisation and democratisation in the Dutch countryside from 1840 till 1920.
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| 5. | € 64,00 | EAN-13: 9782503552484 L. Fernández Prieto
Agriculture in the Age of Fascism. Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2014 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 64,00 | | Descrizione | The agrarian policies of fascism have never before been studied from a comparative perspective. This volume offers an up-to-date overview, as well as new insights drawn from eight case-studies on Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Spain, Japan and Vichy France. The consensus that emerges from them is that the agricultural and rural policies of fascist regimes tended towards modernization and that many of them resembled initiatives pursued in the post-war decades and the Green Revolution, When viewed in this perspective, the fascist era appears less as an aberration and more as an integral part in the global process of agrarian ?modernization?, a process whose merits are now being called into question. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 6. | € 69,00 | EAN-13: 9782503552842 N. Vivier
The Golden Age of State Enquiries. Rural Enquiries in the Nineteenth Century. From Fact Gathering to Political Instrument
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2014 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 69,00 | | Descrizione | The heart of the nineteenth century was the golden age of state enquiries in Europe. This international comparative study highlights the importance of transnational cultural tranfers and the enquiries as a means of construction of the nation state. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 7. | € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9782503544168 B. van Bavel
Rural societies and environments at risk. Ecology, property rights and social organisation in fragile areas (Middle Ages-Twentieth century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2013 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | This book discusses the relationship between ecology and rural society in fragile environments from the Middle Ages until the 20th century, and questions how societies organised land use by property rights. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 8. | € 71,00 | EAN-13: 9782503529554 G. Béaur
Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th-20th Centuries)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2013 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 71,00 | | Descrizione | By exploring the fundamental issues of property rights and markets in land, this book will offer important insights into long-term economic change in Europe. The essays gathered here provide a major consideration of the institutional constraints which can be employed by historians and other commentators in order to explain both the slowness or even absence of growth in certain areas of the European economy between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the discrete experiences of countries within Europe in this broad period.
This is an issue of current interest not least because discussion of 'institutional determinism' has become a standard of explanations of historical and economic change; that said, those promoting such approach have sometimes been criticised for generalising from an 'institutional' perspective rather than taking full account of the variety of potential causative explanations within particular historical contexts.
The present collection of essays will therefore explore the conditions which permitted the progress of agriculture in Europe and the emergence of capitalism in the countryside. The research presented in this volume helps to demonstrate that changes in the market (demand, relative prices...) encouraged changes in property rights but certainly did not do so in ways that were consistent or that led inexorably towards individual and exclusive rights of the kind described by the nineteenth-century liberal paradigm.
Specialist of rural and economic history, Gérard Béaur is Directeur de Recherches at CNRS and Directeur d?Etudes at EHESS (Paris, France). He is member of the Centre de Recherches Historiques and he was director of this unit of research from 2002 to 2010. He was Chair of the COST Action A35 Progressore and he is actually director of the GDRI (International Research Network, CNRS) CRICEC (Crises and Changes in the European Countryside).
Phillipp Schofield is Professor of Medieval History and Head of the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University. His research interests focus on rural society in England in the high and late Middle Ages.
Jean-Michel Chevet is a French researcher in the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. He is a specialist in the economic history of the countryside, particularly of the development of the English and French economies and of the history of viticulture.
Maria-Teresa Pérez-Picazo was Professor of Economic History at the University of Murcie (Spain). Her principal work was on agrarian history and she focused particularly on the subject of water management in the modern period. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 9. | € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9782503545295 P. Moser
Integration through Subordination. The politics of Agricultural Modernisation in Industrial Europe
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2013 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | Starting from the hypothesis that states were crucial as agents of modernisation, this book explores why, how and with what results European states have striven to transform their agricultural sectors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Modernising agriculture has increasingly meant emulating the new organisational models of manufacturing industry. But since agriculture continues to rely heavily on living resources (plants and animals), the results of modernising farming have often differed significantly from the manufacturing sector. Modernised agriculture, in other words, is something quite different than simply industrialised agriculture.
Ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to Hungary and from Greece to England, the chapters of this book deal with four principal questions: Why have state elites, and their civil society allies chosen to modernise agriculture? What have they understood by agricultural modernisation? What sort of power resources have they taken as necessary for effective modernisation? And what were the consequences of the pursuit of modernising policies for the farming population and for agriculture?
Peter Moser is director of the Archives of Rural History in Bern. His research interests centre on the interaction of industrial societies with their agricultural sectors.
Tony Varley lectures in political science and sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests centre mainly on agrarian politics and rural social movements.
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| 10. |  € 66,00 | EAN-13: 9782503532271 R. Congost
Contexts of Property in Europe. The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights in Land in Historical Perspective
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2011 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 66,00 | | Descrizione | The essays in this book tap the potential of the historical analysis of social contexts in which property rights are embedded social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture to understand how landed resources are actually appropriated. This exploratory approach seeks both to take advantage of the existing theory of property rights, as it is applied by the institutionalist outlook on economic history, and to go beyond it by explicitly incorporating social processes and factors in the analysis of property institutions. With this common aim in mind, the book covers a wide variety of historical cases throughout space and time, from the late Middle Ages in the Czech lands and in Tuscany to the very recent de-collectivisation of the countryside in former socialist countries, which will contribute rich and grounded insights to the discussion of the topic and of its implications.
Rui Santos is senior researcher at CESNOVA and teaches at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research interests cover historical and economic sociology and rural studies.
Rosa Congost is senior researcher at the Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural and teaches at Facultat de Lletres in Universitat de Girona. Her research interests cover the history of landed property and agrarian social relations.
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| 11. |  € 71,00 | EAN-13: 9782503540764 M. Olsson
Growth and Stagnation in European Historical Agriculture
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2011 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 71,00 | | Descrizione | Agricultural production has been the basic and single most important factor for the well-being of mankind since the Neolithic revolution. Insufficient agricultural output has led to deficient means of subsistence and sometimes even starvation, while rich harvests brought about plenty and prosperity. Continuous increases in agricultural output have transformed whole societies and continents, bringing about radical changes in people?s lives and economic prospects.
This book is focused on measuring and explaining agricultural growth in Europe. For most countries statistics on agricultural production are either non-existing or shaky for the period up to the end of the nineteenth century. Consequently, researchers dealing with historical farming have been forced to put a lot of effort into reconstructing reliable data on inputs and outputs. The last decades have seen major progress, and new approaches to quantify and explain agricultural development have been adopted. The book is the result of these efforts and it encompasses estimations and explanations of European historical agriculture over time, from the ninth to the twentieth century, and over space, from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia and from the British Isles to Russia.
Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson are associate professors in Economic History at Lund University. Their major research area is the agricultural transformation of Sweden and its social and demographic consequences, covering the manorial system, peasant production and labour productivity, social mobility, and preindustrial land and capital markets. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 12. | € 61,00 | EAN-13: 9782503529547 E. Landsteiner
Agrosystems and Labour Relations in European Rural Societies. (Middle Ages-Twentieth Century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2010 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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It goes without saying that agriculture is a form of
colonisation of nature by society. In the course of history the
articulation of natural and societal features gave rise to a wide
variety of agrosystems within the boundaries of Europe which were
embedded in supra-regional political and economic contexts at least
from the High Middle Ages onwards. By following an integrative
approach, this volume defines agrosystems as production systems
based on the ecological and socioeconomic relations involved in the
reproduction of rural societies at multiple levels. The authors
explore the articulation of natural and societal factors through
the prism of labour relations. The structural and practical
organization of labour is seen as the crucial link between rural
production and reproduction. Accordingly, the contributions focus
on the rural household as the basic unit of production and
reproduction in different temporal and spatial contexts. Therefore,
the question arises if the changes in ecosystems and social systems
have so fundamentally altered European agriculture up to now that
peasant family farming will disappear (if it is no longer sustained
by state intervention).
Erich Landsteiner teaches economic and social history at the
University of Vienna. His research interests cover European
Economic History (15th-18th centuries),
Agrarian History, Early Modern Trade and Finance.
Ernst Langthaler is senior researcher at the Institute of Rural
History in St. Pölten. His research interests cover farming
styles, agrosystems and food regimes in nineteenth and twentieth
century Europe.
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| 13. | € 62,00 | EAN-13: 9782503529523 V. Pinilla
Markets and Agricultural Change in Europe from the 13th to the 20th century
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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The main target of this book is to explore how the involvement
of rural populations and communities in different kinds of markets
(mainly for agricultural commodities) has influenced the management
of rural land in Europe. Most of the papers focus on precisely what
were the forces driving agricultural change in rural Europe.
Although the importance of these changes were very different from
the Middle Ages until the present days, a common approach that
emerged was to stress the importance of urban and external markets
in order to give incentives to changes in the management of rural
land. The transition of agriculture and its producers,
respectively, into a highly market-integrated sector and strongly
market-oriented peasants formed the driving force and prima causa
of European agricultural revolutions during early modern times.
Expansion of market allowed for an intense process of
specialization, with clear competitive advantages with respect to
earlier land uses.
Vicente Pinilla, professor of Economic History at the
University of Zaragoza, has published widely in the field of
economic history, notably of nineteenth- and twentieth -century
Spanish agriculture and international trade in agricultural
products.
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| 14. | € 63,50 | EAN-13: 9782503529530 N. Vivier
The State and Rural Societies. Policy and Education in Europe. 1750-2000
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Rural History in Europe |
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Rural societies are conventionally thought to be bound by
tradition and resistant to change. But from the 18th
century onwards many countries began to see the countryside as the
basis of national prosperity, with a healthy and increasing
population, and rising agricultural output fostering general
economic growth. It became an objective of the State to encourage
the trend, but also to exert social control on this major part of
the population in order to civilize the rude peasantry and acquire
their electoral support.
This book deals with the various aspects of rural life in which
the State intervened: economic matters, such as property rights and
market regulations; social questions, from moral concerns to
demographic policy; and the key issue of rural education.
From Sweden to the Iberian Peninsula, the United Kingdom to
Hungary, and from the eighteenth century to the twentieth, using
both broad surveys and in-depth studies, with an extensive
introduction written from a comparative perspective, an
international group of historians (brought together by the COST
network A35) for the first time examine the rural concerns of the
state, both economic and social, in a comparative European
context.
Nadine Vivier is professor of social and economic history at
the University of Maine (France). She has worked extensively
on rural societies from 1750 to 2000 in France and in
Europe.
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