Title Landless households in rural Europe, 1600-1900 / edited by Christine Fertig, Richard Paping and Henry French

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Boydell studies in rural history ; [3] Boydell studies in rural history ; 3. Contents 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 Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes 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. 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 northern part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. 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 Print version record Subject Peasants -- Europe -- History Rural poor -- Europe -- History Peasants -- Europe -- Social conditions Rural poor -- Europe -- Social conditions HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. Peasants Peasants -- Social conditions Rural conditions Rural poor Rural poor -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Europe -- Rural conditions Europe -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045756 Europe -- Social conditions -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045758 Subject Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Fertig, Christine, editor. Paping, Richard, editor. French, Henry, 1968- editor. ISBN 9781800106031 1800106033 9781800106048 1800106041

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