European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History

Published by Princeton University Press 1976

European Peasants and Their Markets

Essays in Agrarian Economic History

Edited by: William N. Parker and Eric L. Jones

Volume 1371 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400870653

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These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe. The authors endeavor to explain the phenomena with explicit use of economic reasoning, and several of the papers draw on fresh historical source materials. The use of economics provides a relevance beyond the specific historical context, at the same time making possible a broader understanding of the reasons for the persistence, spread, and variation of certain peasant practices and forms of organization.

The topics discussed include: the origin, persistence, and demise of the famous open or common field system of village agricultural organization; the development of peasant and rural industry preceding and during the Industrial Revolution; and the nineteenth-century adjustments of agriculture on the continent to world competition. A foreword by William N. Parker describes the economic and social setting to which the essays are relevant and an afterword by Eric L. Jones relates the papers not only to traditional concerns of economic development and European economic history, but also to the history of the European physical and biological environment in the past several centuries.

Originally published in 1976.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part One
Introduction William Ν. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1. Medieval Origins of the Common Fields Richard C. Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. The Persistence of English Common Fields Donald N. McCloskey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Part Two
3. The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis Donald N. McCloskey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
4. Enclosures and Depopulation: A Marxian 161 Analysis Jon S. Cohen and Martin L. Weitzman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part Three
5. Agriculture and Peasant Industry in Eighteenth-Century Flanders Franklin F. Mendels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
6. Peasant Demand Patterns and Economic Development: Friesland 1550—1750 Jan deVries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part Four
7. Organization and Change in Productivity in Eastern Prussia Robert A. Dickler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
8 Scale and Organization in French Farming, 1840-1880 George W. Grantham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Afterword Eric L. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361