The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe: A Study in the Philosophy of History
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2020-05-29
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Peter Lang
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Abstract
The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – between burghers and the nobility. The political dominance of the nobility hampered the development of cities and limited the influence of burghers, paving the way to the rise of serfdom and manorial farms. These processes were accompanied by increased demand for agricultural products in Western Europe
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The Publication is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as part of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities (years 2017–2019, grant project no. 21H 16 0077 84)
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economical dualism, Central Europe, Idealizational Theory of Science, non-Marxian historical materialism, History of Poland, History of Hungary, History of Bohemia, second serfdom, economical backwardness, modernization
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Brzechczyn, Krzysztof. The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe: A Study in Philosophy of History. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang D, 2020.
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978-3-631-81372-0