The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe - A Study in the Philosophy of History

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance - so characteristic for Western-European societies - between burghers and the nobility. The political dominance of the nobility hampered the development of cities and limited the influence of burghers, paving the way to the rise of serfdom and manorial farms. These processes were accompanied by increased demand for agricultural products in Western Europe

List of contents

Economic dualism - manorial-serf economy - modern history - economic backwardness - Central Europe - modeling in history - idealization - non-Marxian historical materialism - theory of history - cascade process

About the author

Krzysztof Brzechczyn is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznän. He has authored several books and papers in different languages. His fields of interest include modern history, intellectual history, philosophy of history, social philosophy, and theory of historiography.

Product details

• Authors: Krzysztof Brzechczyn
• Assisted by: Anna Wolff-Poweska (Editor), Klara Naszkowska (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783631809907
• ISBN: 978-3-631-80990-7
• No. of pages: 394
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 32 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 605 g
• Illustrations: 28 Abb.
• Series: Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Studies in History, Memory and Politics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History