The essays in this book tap the potential of the historical analysis of social contexts in which property rights are embedded - social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture - to understand how landed resources are actually appropriated. This exploratory approach seeks both to take advantage of the existing theory of property rights, as it is applied by the institutionalist outlook on economic history, and to go beyond it by explicitly incorporating social processes and factors in the analysis of property institutions. With this common aim in mind, the book covers a wide variety of historical cases throughout space and time, from the late Middle Ages in the Czech lands and in Tuscany to the very recent de-collectivisation of the countryside in former socialist countries, which will contribute rich and grounded insights to the discussion of the topic and of its implications
Working out the frame:: From formal institutions to the social contexts of property
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An English or a continental way?: The great agrarian reforms in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein in the late eighteenth century
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From capitalism to ‘neo-feudalism’?: Property relations, land markets, and the Nazi state in the German province of Niederdonau, 1938-1945
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The governmentality of land ownership in south-eastern Europe. Romania and Yugoslavia:: a comparison
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Changing property structures in central European agriculture during decollectivization:: the social aspects of appropriation
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