Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fertig, Christine; French, Henry; Paping, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Contributors: Arnau Barquer i Cerdà, John Broad, ¿ Dieter Bruneel, Christine Fertig, Henry French, Margareth Lanzinger, Jonas Lindström, Riikka Miettinen, Richard Paping, Wouter Ronsijn, Merja Uotila, Nadine Vivier

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800106031
• Artikelnr.: 64210293

Autorenporträt

Edited by Christine Fertig, Richard Paping and Henry French

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French 1. The treballadors of Girona: evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries)
Arnau Barquer i Cerdà 2. The squatter economy of the English countryside
building new landless communities in England c. 1600
1900
John Broad 3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600
1900
Richard Paping 4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s: access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi
landless households, c. 1850
1900
Wouter Ronsijn 5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders: the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500
1900)
¿ Dieter Bruneel 6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760
1835: A comparison of two southern English rural communities
Henry French 7. Landless rural households in France 1852
1910
Nadine Vivier 8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime: non
landed households in seventeenth
century Sweden and Finland
Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström 9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio
economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland
Merja Uotila 10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions: Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Margareth Lanzinger 11. Cottages, barns and bake houses: Landless rural households in North
western Germany in the eighteenth century
Christine Fertig