Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth CenturyCambridge University Press, 1994 - 457 pages How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? How far are peasants, anyway, involved in other pursuits besides subsistence farming, such as industry and dealing? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, the farm family, farm workers, non-farming activities and the relationships between cultivators and other people, in the countryside and the town, in the process of this transition? How far does it vary from region to region? Is it inherent in the peasantry, or must it be instigated by landlords, towns, or the state? These are some of the questions addressed by Goran Hoppe and John Langton in this study of regional change in Sweden. The authors have carefully combined theories about the transition from peasantry to capitalism with meticulous analysis of the abundant Swedish records. Through this 'new regional geography', they reveal the wide geographical variety and rich socio-economic complexity of the changes which occurred in the process of modernisation in the nineteenth century. The authors show that regional geography can be brought to bear on important questions about the way the world changes. They also show that explanations of economic and social change must get to grips with the wide variety of regional geographical experience if they are to be plausible. |
Contents
From peasant economy to market exchange | 21 |
The role of the bourgeoisie | 27 |
The role of the state | 34 |
2 | 40 |
3 | 50 |
Landholding in western Östergötland at the beginning of | 56 |
Changes in ownership and tenancy 181060 | 79 |
79 | 95 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Nonagrarian livelihoods in western Östergötland in the early | 222 |
Changes in nonagricultural livelihoods in Aska and Dahl | 258 |
Conclusion | 307 |
Investment and money in agriculture in western Östergötland | 315 |
Conclusion | 332 |
Flows of labour | 334 |
Flows of labour in Aska and Dahl 181060 | 342 |
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Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth Century Göran Hoppe,John Langton No preview available - 2006 |
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agrarian agriculture arable land areas Aska and Dahl ASKERSUND average bar iron Bergslagen bruk capital capitalist farming cent changes countryside craft craftsmen crofters crofters and cottagers crofts crops debts economic ecotypes eighteenth century enclosure estate owners expanded farmers farmland forest freehold geography Göta Canal Göteborg grain grew groups hands and maids Herrestad holdings households income increased industrial inventories iron ironworks journeymen köping labour force large farms larger life-paths livelihood positions manor farm married hands mills mortgages Motala Ström Motala Town nineteenth century Norrköping northern Aska number of plots occupational Örberga Orlunda Östergötland ownership parish partible inheritance peasant peasant farms peasantry persons of standing plains production proletarian proportion Rdr's worth region Riksdaler rural shield shieldland Skänninge Småland small farms social Södermanland southern Stockholm Strå Styra subregions surplus Sweden Swedish Table taxation value tenant townland traditional urban Vadstena Västra Vättern village widows