The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe / Jerome Blum.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One. The Traditional Order -- 1 The Seigniors -- 2 The Peasants -- 3 The Obligations of the Peasantry -- 4 The Privileges of the Seigniors -- 5 Peasants, Large, Middling and Small -- 6 The Retardation of Agriculture: Techniques and Implements -- 7 The Retardation of Agriculture: Crops and Livestock -- 8 The Rural Economy -- 9 The Condition of the Peasantry -- Part Two: Transition -- 10 Absolute Monarchy and the Nobility -- 11 First Attempts at Reform -- 12 New Directions in Agriculture -- 13 The Improvers -- 14 The Old Order Attacked and Defended -- 15 Peasant Unrest -- Part Three: Emancipation -- 16 Background of the Emancipation -- 17 The Reforms -- 18 Pluses and Minuses -- 19 From Order to Class -- List of Works Cited -- Index

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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the transformation of the old rural order to the modern class society. While historians have studied this transition as it occurred in individual countries, Jerome Blum offers the first view of it as a European experience tha transcended political frontiers.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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In English.

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