Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign : Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia.
Title:
Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign : Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia.
Author:
Wright, William E.
ISBN:
9780816664962
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE BOHEMIAN SERF TO 1740 -- 2 THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM DISCOVERED -- 3 THE LATER YEARS OF MARIA THERESA -- 4 THE RAAB SYSTEM -- 5 JOSEPH II, ROYAL REVOLUTIONARY -- 6 EXTENSION OF THE RAAB SYSTEM -- 7 THE HOYER SYSTEM -- 8 TRIALS AND SUCCESSES IN ROBOTA ABOLITION -- 9 THE AGRARIAN AND TAX LAW OF 1789 -- CONCLUSIONS -- Appendixes -- I: KOSCHUMBERG CONTRACT -- II: ABOLITION FOR ZAHORAN (HOYER) -- III: ABOLITION FOR DEUTSCHBROD (ERBEN) -- IV: PETITION OF SERFS AT LIEBESCHITZ -- V: CONTRACT FOR SALE OF SERF-HELD LAND -- VI: DOCUMENT DISPOSSESSING SERF FOR POOR HUSBANDRY -- VII: BOHEMIAN AND AUSTRIAN MONEY, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
This is a detailed history of the agrarian reforms which took place in Bohemia during the reigns of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa, 1740-1780, and Joseph II, 1780-1790. The enactment of the land reforms had far-reaching social, economic, and political.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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