Peasants Into European Farmers

Author : Katy Fox
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643801074

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Peasants Into European Farmers? by Katy Fox Pdf

This is an ethnographic analysis of how the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was deployed by policy makers and elites in the first year after EU membership, and how it shaped peasant livelihoods. Given the polarised nature of Romania's postsocialist agrarian structure, the CAP excluded peasants from its policies, and demanded they change their subsistence farms into commercial farms. Arguing from the premise that subsistence farms are actually peasant households working on different principles from farms altogether, it was possible to inquire into the resourceful strategies people deployed in their everyday lives.

Author : William N. Parker,Eric L. Jones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400870653

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European Peasants and Their Markets by William N. Parker,Eric L. Jones Pdf

These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe. The authors endeavor to explain the phenomena with explicit use of economic reasoning, and several of the papers draw on fresh historical source materials. The use of economics provides a relevance beyond the specific historical context, at the same time making possible a broader understanding of the reasons for the persistence, spread, and variation of certain peasant practices and forms of organization. The topics discussed include: the origin, persistence, and demise of the famous open or common field system of village agricultural organization; the development of peasant and rural industry preceding and during the Industrial Revolution; and the nineteenth-century adjustments of agriculture on the continent to world competition. A foreword by William N. Parker describes the economic and social setting to which the essays are relevant and an afterword by Eric L. Jones relates the papers not only to traditional concerns of economic development and European economic history, but also to the history of the European physical and biological environment in the past several centuries. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : P. C. M. Hoppenbrouwers,J. L. van Zanden
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112277533

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Peasants Into Farmers? by P. C. M. Hoppenbrouwers,J. L. van Zanden Pdf

Since his first article in 1976 the American historian Robert P. Brenner has tried to come to terms with an issue first raised two centuries ago: how can we explain the differences in growth-patterns of North Western European countries in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. In a frontal attack on both the '(homeostatic) demographic' and 'commercialisation' models, Brenner traced the roots of the divergent evolutions back to rural and feudal 'social-property relations'. In the debate that immediately followed Brenner's first article, and in subsequent exchanges, the Low Countries were significantly neglected, although areas such as Flanders and Holland played a decisive role in the economic development of Europe. This was partly because of too few publications in international languages on the relevant Dutch rural history. This important book, edited by two of the most respected Dutch rural historians, and with contributions by several distinguished historians, seeks to fill this lacuna. It draws upon substantial research, and confronts the Brenner thesis with new results and hypotheses; and it contains a powerful and detailed response by Brenner himself.

Author : Martin Bakers
Publisher : Cambridge Stanford Books
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agriculture in the Middle Ages by Martin Bakers Pdf

In the Middle Ages agriculture underwent many changes. The nobles and the clergy were considered the most important members of the feudal society. However, they were never the majority: in the Middle Ages, almost all people were peasants. Not all farmers had the same category and social status. Many of them were free men. Among these, some were small landowners who lived on their own land, while others, the settlers, leased the feudal lord a small plot of land.

Author : H. Hessell Tiltman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317845935

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Peasant Europe by H. Hessell Tiltman Pdf

First published in 2006. This classic work examines the modern history of Europe from an unusual perspective. European history has usually focussed on the urban life elite and the middle classes, but before World War II more than half of the entire population of the continent was composed of rural peasants occupying a territory stretching from the Black Seas to the Baltic forming a natural barrier between East and West. These people- Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Southern Slavs and others- are the focus of this book. First published in the 1930s, Tiltman's Peasant Europe strays from the normal look at Europe during this time period. While much of the continent is concerned with problems of international relations, industry and the future of armaments, Tiltman goes a step further than most writers and speaks with the common peasant to uncover their day-to-day concerns. He finds that most simply want consideration and a reasonable standard of living for themselves and their children. Accompanying the text are full page photographs, most of which are taken by the author himself, which offer a candid look at peasant life.

Author : S. H. Franklin
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0416123708

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The European Peasantry by S. H. Franklin Pdf

Study of social change in respect of rural workers in Europe since 1945 - covers rural area social structures, traditional peasant economy, aspects of agriculture, farm investment, sociological aspects of agrarian reform and agricultural policy, etc., in EC countries and socialist countries of europe, with some particular reference to France, Germany, Federal Republic, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia. Bibliography pp. 235 to 243, maps, references and statistical tables.

Author : Eugen Weber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804710138

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Peasants into Frenchmen by Eugen Weber Pdf

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived on as if in a timeless world, their existence little different from that of the generations before them. The author of this lively, often witty, and always provocative work traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization. Local roads and railways were the decisive factors, bringing hitherto remote and inaccessible regions into easy contact with markets and major centers of the modern world. The products of industry rendered many peasant skills useless, and the expanding school system taught not only the language of the dominant culture but its values as well, among them patriotism. By 1914, France had finally become La Patrie in fact as it had so long been in name.

Author : Jon Gjerde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521368227

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From Peasants to Farmers by Jon Gjerde Pdf

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.

Author : Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633860076

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A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Pdf

This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu's birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union.

Author : Irwin T. Sanders
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813186498

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Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe by Irwin T. Sanders Pdf

Collectivization of agriculture is an essential feature of the Communist program for the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. It is a means of extending state control of agriculture as well as the basis for developing large-scale industrial and military power. Irwin T. Sanders has edited this excellent group of papers by specialists on Eastern Europe and American rural social scientists, which collectively serve as an analysis of efforts to regiment the East European peasant. To those for whom the terms "collective farm" and "collectivization" have little meaning, this book will provide an actual picture of Communist effort to organize millions of peasants into a standard pattern of production and control. Such regimentation, these writers show, has led to less efficient agriculture from the standpoint of total production although it facilitates the delivery of produce to state economic enterprises.

Author : Robert E. F. Smith
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521209129

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Peasant Farming in Muscovy by Robert E. F. Smith Pdf

This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit, the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of production and the farm implements used are described in detail and Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farming account for Russian backwardness during this period. Part I classifies and describes the range of agrarian activities carried on in Muscovy - arable farming, hayfields, livestock, and gathering from the forest - and presents a model of a hypothetical farm unit; Part II examines three regions -Moscow, Toropets and Kazan - which stretch across central European Russia; and Part III provides a chapter on the relationship between peasant farming and the state.

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860786

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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Author : Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315465913

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Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960 by Carin Martiin,Juan Pan-Montojo,Paul Brassley Pdf

In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.

Author : Doreen Warriner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136924057

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Economics of Peasant Farming by Doreen Warriner Pdf

This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties. It shows an immense contrast between the well-capitalized commercial peasant farming of Western Europe and the poor subsistence farming of the remotest parts of Eastern Europe; and between these two extremes a wide range of variation in standards of living and farming efficiency.

Author : Alina Mungiu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Collective farms
ISBN : 2821815204

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A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu Pdf