The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe. Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Документальная литература. Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics
The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9783631813720
Автор произведения Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Жанр Документальная литература
Серия Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics
Издательство Ingram
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