Social change in a peripheral society : the creation of a Balkan colony / Daniel Chirot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chirot, Daniel, author.

Series:

Studies in social discontinuity.

Studies in social discontinuity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Wallachia--Social conditions.

Wallachia.

Wallachia--Politics and government.

Wallachia--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, England : Academic Press, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Social Change in a Peripheral Society

Contents:

Front Cover; Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Tables; Notes on the Use of Romanian Terms and Letters; Chapter 1. Introduction: A Method for Studying Social Change; Chapter 2. Wallachia; The Geography of Wallachia; The Early Communal-Trade Wallachian Political Economy; Chapter 3. The Dual Nature of the Communal-Trading Political Economy ( 1250-1500); Evidence about the Early Communal Villages; The Nobles; The State; The Role of Commerce

Chapter 4. The Collapse of the Communal-Trading Political Economy and the Rise of the Seignorial State (1500-1600)The New System of Taxation; The Growth of the Nobles' Power; Serfdom; The Fall of Communal-Trading Political Economies; Chapter 5. The Protocolonial Political Economy (1600-1821); Taxes and the Ottoman Tribute; Trade; Serfs and Free Villagers; Oltenia 1718-173 9 : A Premature Experiment in Modern Colonialism; The Reform of 1746 and Rural Society until 1821; The State, the Nobles, and the Monasteries; Chapter 6. The Transition to Modem Colonialism (1821-1864)

The International ContextThe Organic Regulation and Russian Rule; Rural Society under the Organic Regulation; The Nobles and the Monasteries; The Towns; The Revolution of 1848; The Union of Wallachia and Moldavia and the Reform of 1864; Chapter 7. The Developed Colonial Political Economy and the Agrarian Crisis (1864-1917); The Open Economy; The Effects of the Reform of 1864; The Overthrow of Cuza and Kogălniceanu; Agrarian Relations after 1866 : Neoserfdom; Population Changes; Rural Society and Economy in 1900; A New Bourgeoisie?; Agricultural Innovations; The Revolt of 1907

Reform Legislature after 1907World War I and Its Aftermath; Chapter 8. Social Change in Peripheral Societies; References; 1. General Works; 2. Works on Romania; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781483271415

1483271412

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04982 hdl