Peasants into Citizens. The Politicization of Rural Areas in East Central Europe (1861-1914)

0535083 - HÚ 2021 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Řepa, Milan
Introduction. The Politicization of Rural Areas: The Case of East Central Europe.
Peasants into Citizens. The Politicization of Rural Areas in East Central Europe (1861-1914). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020 - (Řepa, M.), s. 1-9. Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas, 31. ISBN 978-3-447-11517-9
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA17-02986S
Institutional support: RVO:67985963
Keywords : politicization * peasantry * east-central Europe (1861-1914)
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The introduction gives a survey of the relevant literature and the state of current knowledge about the politicization of peasantry in the 19th century. It begins with books written on the politicization of the French countryside, the works of historians such as A. Siegfried, M. Agulhon, or E. Weber are considered paradigmatic. Then author focuses on the distinctiveness of political and socio-economic conditions under which peasants lived in East Central Europe (namely Bohemian lands, Wielkopolska, Galicia, Hungary and Romania). It seems that the laboratory for research into the politicization of the peasantry in Central Europe is Galicia, where a varied amalgam of social, ethnic and religious conditions was created.
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