Traditional Romanian Village Communities - The Transition From Communal to Capitalist Mode of Production in

Klappentext The book is a study of the evolution of Romanian peasant society from the thirteenth century to the present. Zusammenfassung The book is a study of the evolution of Romanian peasant society from the thirteenth century to the present! focusing particularly on the village communities of Wallachia and Moldavia! in which until quite recently communal villages still existed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The international framework of the problem and its Romanian aspects: 1. The international framework of the problem; 2. Hypotheses concerning the genesis of the Romanian feudal states; Part I. The internal life of two types of contemporary village communities: 'non-genealogical' and 'genealogical': 3. The free communities of the 'archaic' type; 4. Free evolved communities; 5. The former serf villages; Part II. The village communities of the peasants liable to corvée (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries): 6. The communities of corvée peasants; 7. The economic life of the corvée villages; Part III. The first forms of tributary exploitation of the village communities: 8. Prior considerations on the problem of the feudal conquest of the villages; 9. First forms of the seizure of the village communities; 10. The conquest of the village communities by the boyar class; 11. The great social crisis of serfdom; 12. First sings of the failure of serfdom; Conclusions. Some theoretical considerations.

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• Authors: Henri H. Stahl, Stahl Henri H.
• Assisted by: Daniel Chirot (Translation), Holley Coulter Chirot (Translation), Chirot Daniel (Translation), Chirot Holley Coulter (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521089111
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08911-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Modern Capitalism; Studies in Modern Capitalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Romania, Social and cultural history