Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78327-722-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 350 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Boydell Studies in Rural History

The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth divided landowners and farmers from (increasingly) landless rural workers. But they have hitherto been relatively neglected, a gap which this volume, covering Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France and Spain from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, aims to fill, making creative use of a diverse range of unexplored sources. Instead of concentrating on the well-documented cases of landholding peasants, it explores the many different experiences of the numerous rural landless. It explains how their households were formed (often in the face of economic difficulties and official hostility), how all the members of a family contributed to its survival, how the landless related to other social groups and negotiated access to vital resources, and how they adapted as rural society was changed by war, politics, agrarian and industrial development, government policy and welfare systems.

Contributors: Arnau Barquer, John Broad, ? Dieter Bruneel, Christine Fertig, Henry French, Margareth Lanzinger, Jonas Lindstr?m, Riekka Miettinen, Richard Paping, Wouter Ronsijn, Merja Uotila, Nadine Vivier

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fertig, Christine

Paping, Richard

French, Henry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barquer i Cerdà, Arnau

Broad, John

Bruneel, Dieter

Fertig, Christine

French, Henry

Lanzinger, Margareth

Lindström, Jonas

Miettinen, Riikka

Paping, Richard

Ronsijn, Wouter

Uotila, Merja

Vivier, Nadine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
- Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French
1. The treballadors of Girona: evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries)
- Arnau Barquer i Cerdà
2. The squatter economy of the English countryside - building new landless communities in England c. 1600-1900
- John Broad
3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600-1900
- Richard Paping
4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s: access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi-landless households, c. 1850-1900
- Wouter Ronsijn
5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders: the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500-1900)
- † Dieter Bruneel
6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760-1835: A comparison of two southern English rural communities
- Henry French
7. Landless rural households in France 1852-1910
- Nadine Vivier
8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime: non-landed households in seventeenth-century Sweden and Finland
- Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström
9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio-economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland
- Merja Uotila
10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions: Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Margareth Lanzinger
11. Cottages, barns and bake houses: Landless rural households in North-western Germany in the eighteenth century
- Christine Fertig

Über Autor(innen)

French, Henry
Henry French is Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter. He has published on rural society in England, as well as the landed elite, and the use of urban common lands in England.

Fertig, Christine
Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe.

Fertig, Christine
Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe.

French, Henry
Henry French is Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter. He has published on rural society in England, as well as the landed elite, and the use of urban common lands in England.

Paping, Richard
Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century.

Paping, Richard
Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century.