Backwardness and modernization : Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th-20th centuries
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Backwardness and modernization : Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th-20th centuries
(Variorum collected studies series, CS858)
Ashgate/Variorum, c2006
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The subject of this book is the economic backwardness of Poland and Eastern Europe in the modern era. The studies in the first part analyse various aspects of the region's economic and social history in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries, such as the nature of peasant economics, the character of economic evolution, and the ambiguity of social and economic relations between Poland and "the West". The second part deals with the change following the fall of state socialism. Papers in this part argue that, for understanding the present, it is necessary to take into consideration historical legacies. It is also important to look at the process of this recent change comparatively, both within Eastern Europe and comparing this region with other parts of the world. Professor Kochanowicz's contention in these essays is that the so-called transformation has had to cope not only with the effects of state socialism, but also with a much longer legacy of backwardness.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Backwardness: The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the eighteenth century
- Between submission and violence: peasant resistance in the Polish manorial economy of the eighteenth century
- The Polish economy and the evolution of dependency
- Could a Polish noble become an entrepreneur? Mentality, market and capital
- The economy of the Polish Kingdom: a question of dependence
- Globalization and Eastern Europe: 1870-1914, 1970-2000
- Poland and the West: in or out? Modernization: Transition to market in a comparative perspective: a historian's point of view
- Reforming weak states and deficient bureaucracies
- Modernization from above: the end of the road? Leviathan exhausted: ideas on the state of the post-communist transformation
- New solidarities? Market change and social cohesion in a historical perspective
- Incomplete demise: reflections on the welfare state in Poland after communism
- Trajectories of East European transformation: global influence and local legacies. Index.
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