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Record Nr.

UNINA9910508506003321

Autore

Naszkowska Klara

Titolo

The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe : A Study in the Philosophy of History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

3-631-81372-4

3-631-81371-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (394 pages)

Collana

Studies in History, Memory and Politics.

Altri autori (Persone)

BrzechczynKrzysztof <1963->

Disciplina

943

Soggetti

History

Europe, Central History Philosophy

Europe, Central History 16th century Historiography

Europe, Central History 17th century Historiography

Europe, Central Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

In Defense of the Theory of the Historical Process -- The Concept of Central Europe -- On the Distinctiveness of Central Europe -- The Method of Idealization in the Historical Sciences -- The Methodological Characterization of the Cascade Effect -- The Basic Ideas of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism -- Ownership and Revolution in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism -- Models of the Source of a Cascade -- The Genesis of European Differentiation.

Sommario/riassunto

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