By William E. Wright
Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign used to be first released in 1966. Minnesota Archive variations makes use of electronic expertise to make long-unavailable books once more available, and are released unaltered from the unique collage of Minnesota Press editions.
This is a close historical past of the agrarian reforms which happened in Bohemia through the reigns of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa, 1740–1780, and Joseph II, 1780–1790. The enactment of the land reforms had far-reaching social, monetary, and political results, and the topic constitutes an immense bankruptcy within the heritage of the state we now recognize as Czechoslovakia. the subject has been not often touched in English, in spite of the fact that, and has only in the near past been competently taken care of via the Marxist historians of post-World warfare II Czechoslovakia. a lot of Professor Wright's account is predicated on files no longer formerly utilized by historians, quite fabrics within the Hofkammerarchiv in Vienna.
The writer presents a historical past by means of describing the advance of serfdom in Bohemia over nearly 2 hundred years sooner than the accession of Maria Theresa to the throne of Austria in 1740. In significant sections of the booklet Professor Wright strains the reasons, occasions, and results of this system of agrarian reform which Maria Theresa and Joseph II conducted. He indicates how the adjustments within the land procedure profoundly affected the relationships of the serf, seigneur, and sovereign, and the way they prepared the ground for the a lot better social revolution which used to be to return with the emancipation of 1848.
In addition to delivering a wealth of actual info, the account provides a dramatic photograph of the plight of the peasant, besides legitimate glimpses of the personalities of the rulers and their ministers. experts in ecu background, social historical past, or agrarian heritage will locate the ebook relatively rewarding.
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