The article explores much neglected aspects of the antecedents of peasant emancipation in Austria and Bohemia on the eve of the French Revolution. The Bohemian peasant uprising of 1775 and the unrest of the 1770s in Silesia and Austria are described according to recent trends of interpretation. The main emphasis is on Maria Theresa's peasant policies in the era 1760-80. It is argued that the Theresian reforms aimed to modernize rural society by encouraging the conversion of the tenant farmers into private property owners. This was to be achieved by encouraging private contracts and by restructuring the exploitation of the lower orders of the peasantry, by enacting laws which limited the Robota (labour obligations) exacted by the feudal land...
Between 1861 and 1917 a “land allotment mentalité” developed among government officials, public acti...
Te following article describes the socio-economic situation of Galicia in the years 1772-1848, payin...
In this wide-ranging historiographical introduction to his thesis on the Oise peasantry from 1760 to...
This paper is intended to shed some light on several aspects of Queen Maria Theresa’s urbarial regul...
Marxist and free-market economists and historians have tended to agree in regarding the peasantry as...
This article describes agrarian reforms of Josef II, the most outstanding reformer in the Habsburg ...
In the post-Compromise Croatia–Slavonia (1868–1914) several peasant uprisings indicated a deep crisi...
This paper, a summary of current knowledge, aims at showing the widespread aspirations for agrarian ...
The article discusses the peculiarities of the life of peasants in the XIX century. During this peri...
The French Revolution of 1789 is arguably the most significant set of uprisings in modern European h...
The article presents a brief overview of land reform in Slovakia between 1919 and 1935 from the view...
Scholars tend to interpret the European peasantry's incorporation into mass politics at the beginnin...
The view of the changes of peasant estate in the Czech Lands of the nineteenth century as a specific...
The article is devoted to the historiographical estimation of the participation of the nobility of t...
In February 1914, the Agricultural Associations of Housewives, operating in the Eastern provinces of...
Between 1861 and 1917 a “land allotment mentalité” developed among government officials, public acti...
Te following article describes the socio-economic situation of Galicia in the years 1772-1848, payin...
In this wide-ranging historiographical introduction to his thesis on the Oise peasantry from 1760 to...
This paper is intended to shed some light on several aspects of Queen Maria Theresa’s urbarial regul...
Marxist and free-market economists and historians have tended to agree in regarding the peasantry as...
This article describes agrarian reforms of Josef II, the most outstanding reformer in the Habsburg ...
In the post-Compromise Croatia–Slavonia (1868–1914) several peasant uprisings indicated a deep crisi...
This paper, a summary of current knowledge, aims at showing the widespread aspirations for agrarian ...
The article discusses the peculiarities of the life of peasants in the XIX century. During this peri...
The French Revolution of 1789 is arguably the most significant set of uprisings in modern European h...
The article presents a brief overview of land reform in Slovakia between 1919 and 1935 from the view...
Scholars tend to interpret the European peasantry's incorporation into mass politics at the beginnin...
The view of the changes of peasant estate in the Czech Lands of the nineteenth century as a specific...
The article is devoted to the historiographical estimation of the participation of the nobility of t...
In February 1914, the Agricultural Associations of Housewives, operating in the Eastern provinces of...
Between 1861 and 1917 a “land allotment mentalité” developed among government officials, public acti...
Te following article describes the socio-economic situation of Galicia in the years 1772-1848, payin...
In this wide-ranging historiographical introduction to his thesis on the Oise peasantry from 1760 to...