Landless households in rural Europe, 1600-1900:

First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth...

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Other Authors: Fertig, Christine 1972- (Editor), Paping, Richard 1962- (Editor), French, Henry R. 1968- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge The Boydell Press 2022
Series:Boydell studies in rural history
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800106031
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800106031
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800106031
Summary:First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto been relatively neglected, a gap which this volume, covering Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France and Spain from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, aims to fill, making creative use of a diverse range of unexplored sources. Instead of concentrating on the well-documented cases of landholding peasants, it explores the many different experiences of the numerous rural landless. It explains how their households were formed (often in the face of economic difficulties and official hostility), how all the members of a family contributed to its survival, how the landless related to other social groups and negotiated access to vital resources, and how they adapted as rural society was changed by war, politics, agrarian and industrial development, government policy and welfare systems
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 329 Seiten)
ISBN:9781800106031
DOI:10.1017/9781800106031

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