The end of the old order in rural Europe / Jerome Blum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Jerome, 1913-1993, author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Europe--History.

Peasants.

Feudalism--Europe--History.

Feudalism.

Social classes--Europe--History.

Social classes.

Europe--Rural conditions.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Princeton Legacy Library edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 frontiers.Originally published in 1978.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part One. The Traditional Order

1 The Seigniors

2 The Peasants

3 The Obligations of the Peasantry

4 The Privileges of the Seigniors

5 Peasants, Large, Middling and Small

6 The Retardation of Agriculture: Techniques and Implements

7 The Retardation of Agriculture: Crops and Livestock

8 The Rural Economy

9 The Condition of the Peasantry

Part Two: Transition

10 Absolute Monarchy and the Nobility

11 First Attempts at Reform

12 New Directions in Agriculture

13 The Improvers

14 The Old Order Attacked and Defended

15 Peasant Unrest

Part Three: Emancipation

16 Background of the Emancipation

17 The Reforms

18 Pluses and Minuses

19 From Order to Class

List of Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691654379

0691654379

9780691613406

0691613400

OCLC:

1016767528