Chirot Social Change in a Peripheral Society

The Creation of a Balkan Colony
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7141-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony focuses on the nature of social change in peripheral societies, societies on the margins of the capitalist European world that have been absorbed by the dynamic industrial economies and turned into 'colonial or 'neocolonial societies. This book emphasizes the theory of an interdependent world-system dominated by core societies that subject, by direct or indirect means, peripheral societies. Studies on several peripheral societies, primarily those in the contemporary 'third world, that are in the former colonies of Europe in Latin America, Asia, and Africa are also described. This text likewise explains the tremendous vitality of European capitalism by deliberating the difference between Ottoman and capitalist exploitation of Romania. This publication is beneficial to historians, economists, and anthropologists interested in the social change in peripheral society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chirot, Daniel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony;4
3;Copyright Page ;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Preface;12
6;List of Tables;16
7;Notes on the Use of Romanian Terms and Letters;18
8;Chapter 1. Introduction: A Method for Studying Social Change;22
9;Chapter 2. Wallachia;28
9.1;The Geography of Wallachia;31
10;Chapter 3. The Dual Nature of the Communal-Trading Political Economy ( 1250–1500);36
10.1;The Early Communal-Trade Wallachian Political Economy;31
10.2;Evidence about the Early Communal Villages;41
10.3;The Nobles;45
10.4;The State;47
10.5;The Role of Commerce;49
11;Chapter 4. The Collapse of the Communal-Trading Political Economy and the Rise of the Seignorial State (1500-1600);58
11.1;The New System of Taxation;62
11.2;The Growth of the Nobles' Power;64
11.3;Serfdom;70
11.4;The Fall of Communal-Trading Political Economies;76
12;Chapter 5. The Protocolonial Political Economy (1600–1821);78
12.1;Taxes and the Ottoman Tribute;84
12.2;Trade;86
12.3;Serfs and Free Villagers;90
12.4;Oltenia 1718–173 9 : A Premature Experiment in Modern Colonialism;95
12.5;The Reform of 1746 and Rural Society until 1821;97
12.6;The State, the Nobles, and the Monasteries;104
13;Chapter 6. The Transition to Modem Colonialism (1821–1864);110
13.1;The International Context;112
13.2;The Organic Regulation and Russian Rule;115
13.3;Rural Society under the Organic Regulation;119
13.4;The Nobles and the Monasteries;125
13.5;The Towns;128
13.6;The Revolution of 1848;130
13.7;The Union of Wallachia and Moldavia and the Reform of 1864;133
14;Chapter 7. The Developed Colonial Political Economy and the Agrarian Crisis (1864–1917);140
14.1;The Open Economy;142
14.2;The Effects of the Reform of 1864;146
14.3;The Overthrow of Cuza and Kogalniceanu;152
14.4;Agrarian Relations after 1866 : Neoserfdom;153
14.5;Population Changes;157
14.6;Rural Society and Economy in 1900;159
14.7;A New Bourgeoisie?;166
14.8;Agricultural Innovations;169
14.9;The Revolt of 1907;171
14.10;Reform Legislature after 1907;175
14.11;World War I and Its Aftermath;177
15;Chapter 8. Social Change in Peripheral Societies;180
16;References;186
16.1;1. General Works;186
16.2;2. Works on Romania;189
17;Index;194