Peasantry to capitalism : western Östergötland in the nineteenth century
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Peasantry to capitalism : western Östergötland in the nineteenth century
(Cambridge studies in historical geography, 22)
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  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
Note
"First published 1994. This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-445) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, and the relationships between cultivators and others in the process of this transition? How far does it vary from region to region? Is it inherent in the peasantry, or must it be instigated by landlord, townsfolk or the state? These are some of the questions addressed by Goeran Hoppe and John Langton in this 1995 study of rural change in Sweden. Eschewing both traditional narrow empiricism, and the recent trend to over-employ modern social theory, the authors have carefully combined theories about the transition from peasantry to capitalism with meticulous analysis of the abundant Swedish records. In doing so, they reveal the wide geographical variety and rich socioeconomic complexity of the changes which occurred in the process of modernization in the nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: peasants and economic development
- 2. Conceptualizing regional change
- 3. Agrarian land ownership and farm holdings
- 4. Agrarian livelihood positions, projects and production structures
- 5. Industrial and urban livelihoods
- 6. Investment and money in agriculture
- 7. Flows of labour
- 8. Conclusion: peasants and others in the development of capitalist economy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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