The manorial economy in early-modern East-Central Europe
Subtitle: origins, development and consequences
By: Jerzy Topolski.
Series: Collected studies series ;; CS470.; Studies in East-Central Europe 1500-1900; Collected studies ;; CS470.; Collected studies.
Publisher: Variorum; Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng; fre; ger
Subjects: Serfdom -- Europe, Eastern -- History.; Land tenure -- Europe, Eastern -- History.; Europe, Eastern -- Rural conditions.; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions.
Description: This text is concerned with one of the fundamental problems in the economic and social history of Europe in the early modern period, namely, the bifurcation in its development: in Western Europe, the development of capitalism; in East-Central Europe, the rise of the manorial-serf economy which hampered the development of capitalism. The main motif linking together the studies in this volume is the endeavour to explain this separation - the author evaluates the different theories explaining this, and also provides further analysis of economic life, dealing with commercial activity and economic regression, especially in Poland.
Notes: Articles in English, French, and German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.