Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Müller, Dietmar; Siegrist, Hannes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781782384618
• ISBN-10: 1782384618
• Artikelnr.: 42033705

Autorenporträt

Dietmar Müller has conducted and coordinated research projects on land ownership and legal culture in East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig and at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at the same university. In 2012/13 he was Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Among his property-related publications are the co-edited volume Transforming Rural Societies (with Angela Harre, StudienVerlag 2010) and Institutionen und Kultur in Südosteuropa (with Wim van Meurs, Otto Sagner 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Property in East Central Europe: Notions, Institutions and
Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century
Hannes Siegrist and Dietmar Müller
PART I: ECONOMIC HISTORY
Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of Property: Landownership and
Modernization in Poland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Jacek Kochanowicz
Chapter 2. Agriculture and Landownership in the Economic History of
Twentieth-century Romania
Bogdan Murgescu
PART II: PROPERTY BETWEEN LAW AND POLITICS
Chapter 3. Property in the East Central European Legal Culture
Herbert Küpper
Chapter 4. The Habsburg Cadastral Registration System in the Context of
Modernization
Kurt Scharr
Chapter 5. Property between Delimitation and Nationalization: The Notion,
Institutions and Practices of Land Proprietorship in Romania, Yugoslavia
and Poland, 1918-1948
Dietmar Müller
Chapter 6. Frontline Soldiers into Farmers: Military Colonization in Poland
after World War I and World War II
Christhardt Henschel
Chapter 7. The Country Road to Revolution: Transforming Individual Peasant
Property into Socialist Property in Yugoslavia, 1945-1953
Jovica Lukovic
PART III: PRACTICES AND MENTALITIES OF LANDOWNERSHIP
Chapter 8. Homeland as Property: Symbolic Ownership and the Local Heritage
of the Past in Lemkowyna and the Ukraine
Jacek Nowak
Chapter 9. Landownership in Practice: The Case of the Local Community of
Naramice in Central Poland
Pawel Klint
Chapter 10. Property and Agricultural Policy in Twentieth-century Romania:
Intentions, Technical Means and Social Realities
Cornel Micu
Chapter 11. Owning Land in Central Serbia: Contemporary Notions and
Practices: The Case of Mrcajevci
Srdan MiloSevic
Chapter 12. The Practices of Land Ownership in Vojvodina: The Case of
Aradac
Jovana Dikovic
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index