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Family History Revisited
This collection of original essays by scholars on the historical study of the family from various parts of the world represent a new departure in this field. The essays cover a great variety of topics, and many countries are represented. The essays open up new debates and point to new directions in the field by examining dimensions of family relations that had not been sufficiently addressed in previous scholarship.
Erbschaftspraxis, Besitztransfer und Handlungsspielräume von Untertanen in der Gutsherrschaft
Das Buch ist Ergebnis einer im Rahmen eines internationalen Forschungsprojektes durchgefuhrten Studie und versteht sich als Beitrag zur internationalen Debatte uber die landliche Gesellschaft im Bereich der Gutsherrschaft. Es bezieht sich auf aktuelle Forschungsdiskussionen in der Sozial- und der Agrargeschichte sowie der Historischen Anthropologie von Gutsherrschaftsgesellschaften, fur die kaum empirische Forschungen vorliegen. Die Analyse basiert auf einer Mikrostudie dreier Dorfer in Nordbohmen zwischen 1558 und 1750. Die Ergebnisse ermoglichen eine neue Einschatzung der sozialen Praxis in landlichen Gesellschaften der Fruhen Neuzeit, insbesondere im Bereich der bauerlichen Erbschaftspraxis, des Besitztransfers, der Altersversorgung sowie der Rolle und der dorflichen Gemeinde in der Gutsherrschaft. Dadurch konnen bisherige pauschalierende Vorstellungen uber die Funktionsweise der Gutsherrschaft in Bohmen und im ostlichen Mitteleuropa hinterfragt werden.
Statehood Before and Beyond Ethnicity
Today's world is a world of nation-states; few have survived since the early modern period, some have existed for three hundred years, most came into being during the second part of the last century. Yet the equation between the state and the nation does not go back far in history, despite the prevailing tendency to view the state as closely linked to ethnicity. To challenge the latter this book attempts to examine statehood separately from the concept of ethnicity; it asks what is non-ethnic about statehood by looking at 'statehood before and beyond ethnicity'. A non-ethnic statehood is analysed in two forms: as a historical phenomenon at the time of the emergence of the early modern state (Part One) and as a historical tradition which had been pursued by the nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Part Two). Instead of looking at great powers as traditional models of statehood, individual chapters focus on minor and less familiar states in Northern and Eastern Europe from the period c. 1600-2000, including Belgium, Bohemia, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Poland-Lithuania, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, Scotland and Transylvania.
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe witnessed endemic episodes of famine and a wave of plague epidemics that amounted to one of its worst health crises, rivaled only by the Justinian plague in the sixth century. These challenges called into question the production of goods and services and the distribution of wealth, opening the possibility of fundamental systemic change. This book offers an empirical synthesis on a host of economic, ...
Empowering Interactions
The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institut...
Schiavitù e servaggio nell’economia europea. Secc. XI-XVIII = Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy
Il volume esamina i rapporti di lavoro non contrattuali (schiavitù e servaggio) che a lungo contraddistinsero l'economia europea, sia pure con andamenti assai diversi nelle differenti aree. I saggi in esso contenuti esaminano la evoluzione del servaggio (visto come il lato economico del regime signorile) e delle diverse forme di sottomissione personale, fino alla vera e propria tratta degli schiavi, di cui i mercanti europei furono protagonisti, mettendo in luce una situazione assai più complessa e articolata di quanto gli schemi interpretativi tradizionali lasciassero intuire.
Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900
Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between East Central Europe and Northwestern Europe. How did the specific economic, military-political, legal, religious, and cultural profile of the region affect remarriage patterns and stepfamily types? How did the greater propensity of widowed parents to remarry in some of the East Central European communities compared to Western ones shape the children’s lives? And how did the routine divorce before O...
Rolnictvo na pozdně středověkém Chebsku
Středověké rolnictvo je pro historiky velkou a mimořádně přitažlivou neznámou, neboť v sobě skrývá klíč k pochopení pozdějšího ekonomického růstu, nebo naopak zarážející stagnace některých evropských regionů. V hrubých obrysech a jen torzovitě známe sociální struktury a instituce středověkého rolnictva, o skutečné vnitřní dynamice a demografických aspektech však nevíme takřka nic. Předkládaná monografie reaguje na tuto poznávací výzvu a využívá dosud nepovšimnuté a evropsky unikátní písemné prameny, které se dochovaly pro chebský městský stát. Díky nim přináší pozoruhodně detailní pohled na sociální mobilitu, migraci a způsob sociální reprodukce pozdně středověkého rolnictva, včetně nových pohledů na fenomén masového pustnutí venkovských sídlišť v tomto období.
The Coasts of Bohemia
A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.
Elitenforschung in der Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Der vorliegende Sammelband zur historischen Elitenforschung ist das Ergebnis eines internationalen Workshops, der im Frühjahr 2015 in Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) stattgefunden hat. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, inwieweit philosophische und soziologische Elite-Konzepte auf das Gebiet der historischen Forschung übertragen werden können und inwiefern die Quellenlage aus dem Gebiet der Sozialgeschichte vom 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert eine fundierte Erforschung historischer Eliten ermöglicht. Neben dem praktischen Erfahrungsaustausch über die Perspektiven und Grenzen der historischen Elitenforschung am Beispiel eigener Forschungen werden auch die Bemühungen der Geschichtswissenschaft thematisiert sich gegen andere Sozialwissenschaften, im Besonderen der Soziologie, zu öffnen und in einer Debatte über den Begriff der Elite in der historischen Entwicklung der Neuzeit zu engagieren. Damit können theoretische Konzepte aus vielen Feldern der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften mit empirischen Befunden aus historischen Quellen zu einer neuen interdisziplinären Symbiose verbunden werden.
