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Bretagne, Maine-Touraine, Anjou-Poitou
Aleksander Panjek
出版
Brepols Publishers
, 2024-11-28
主題
Business & Economics / Economic History
History / Europe / Medieval
History / Social History
ISBN
2503590047
9782503590042
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7kdXwgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.