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How mighty the junkers? peasant rents and seigneurial profits in sixteenth‐century brandenburg
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This article is published in Past & Present.The article was published on 1985-08-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peasant.read more
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Power, distortions, revolt, and reform in agricultural land relations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how these power relations emerged and what legal means enabled relatively few landowners to accumulate and hold on to large landholdings, and discuss the main policy issues and implications of various distortions and successful and unsuccessful reforms in the developing world, including land registration and titling, land taxation, regulations restricting land sales and rentals, fragmentation and consolidation of land, redistributive land reform, and decollectivization.
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Chapter 42 Power, distortions, revolt and reform in agricultural land relations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the efficiency and equity consequences of rental and sales markets for agricultural land in the developing world and examine the relationship between farm size and productivity, concluding that farms that rely mostly on family labor have higher productivity levels than large farms operated primarily with hired labor.
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The landlord class, peasant differentiation, class struggle and the transition to capitalism: England, France and Prussia compared
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the character of the landlord class and of class struggle have determined both the timing of each transition and the nature of the transition, and that both the quality of the landlords and the manner and outcome of the class struggle has sometimes delayed, perhaps for prolonged periods, and sometimes hastened transition; and have had profound implications for the nature and quality of transformation and how reactionary or progressive it has been.
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Descent of the Sonderweg: Hans Rosenberg's History of Old-Regime Prussia
TL;DR: The National Socialist seizure of power, abetted and applauded by disproportionate numbers of his contemporaries, drove him into exile as mentioned in this paper, and he later wrote of the "curiosity and anxiety" he felt toward the catastrophe of German fascism, which had "disfigured and besmirched the wrinkled historic face of my native land beyond recognition, giving it "the most sordid and brutal expression in its entire past".
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Gutsherrschaft in East Elbian Germany and Livonia, 1500–1800: A Critique of the Model
TL;DR: For over a century now, scholars have viewed the divergent paths of agrarian development east and west of the Elbe river as a watershed in German history as mentioned in this paper, according to which peasants from the late Middle Ages on enjoyed increasing freedom from direct seigniorial interference in their social, economic, and judicial affairs.