Integrated Peasant Economy in Central and Eastern Europe
A Comparative Approach
Edited by Aleksander Panjek
Income integration based on the peasants’ engagement in non-agrarian sectors is a prominent and widespread feature in the history of the European countryside. While listing a multitude of activities outside the narrow scope of farm management aimed at self-consumption, prevailing interpretations emphasize how survival was the goal of peasant economies and societies. The “integrated peasant economy” is a new paradigm that considers the peasant economy as a comprehensive system of agrarian and non-agrarian activities, disclosing how peasants demonstrate agency, aspirations and the ability to proactively change and improve their economic and social condition. After having been successfully applied to the Alpine and Scandinavian areas, the book tests this innovative concept through a wide range of case studies on central and eastern European regions comprising Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Russia. By enhancing our knowledge on central and eastern Europe and questioning the assumption that these regions were “different”, it helps overcome interpretive simplifications and common places, as well as the underrepresentation of the “eastern half” of Europe in scholarly literature on rural history. That’s why the book represents a refreshing methodological contribution and a new insight into European rural history which might help reconsider current narratives on development history.
- Edited by Aleksander Panjek
Other Titles in this Series
Contexts of Property in Europe
The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights in Land in Historical Perspective
Volume 5
Inheritance Practices, Marriage Strategies and Household Formation in European Rural Societies
Volume 7
The Golden Age of State Enquiries
Rural Enquiries in the Nineteenth Century. From Fact Gathering to Political Instrument
Volume 14
Agrosystems and Labour Relations in European Rural Societies
(Middle Ages-Twentieth Century)
Volume 3
Rural Societies and Environments at Risk
Ecology, Property Rights and Social Organisation in Fragile Areas (Middle Ages-Twentieth Century)
Volume 9
The Formation of Agricultural Governance
The Interplay between State and Civil Society in European Agriculture, 1870-1940
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Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th-20th Centuries)
Volume 1
From Breeding & Feeding to Medicalization
Animal farming, veterinarization and consumers in the 20th c. Western Europe
Volume 17
Integration through Subordination
The politics of Agricultural Modernisation in Industrial Europe
Volume 8
Agriculture in the Age of Fascism
Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945
Volume 13
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