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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787143103321

Titolo

Property in East Central Europe : notions, institutions, and practices of landownership in the twentieth century / / edited by Hannes Siegrist and Dietmar Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-462-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

333.309437/0904

Soggetti

Land tenure - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Land tenure - Poland - History - 20th century

Land tenure - Romania - History - 20th century

Land tenure - Yugoslavia - History - 20th century

Right of property - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Real property - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century

Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 20th century

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction Property in East Central Europe ; PART I  Economic History ; 1 The Changing Landscape of Property ; 2 Agriculture and Landownership in the Economic History of  Twentieth-Century Romania ; PART II  Property between Law and Politics ; 3 Property in East Central European Legal Culture ; 4 The Habsburg Cadastral Registration System in the Context of Modernization ; 5 Property between Delimitation and Nationalization ; 6 Front-line Soldiers into Farmers ; 7 The Country Road to Revolution

PART III  Practices and Mentalities of Landownership 8 Homeland as Property ; 9 Landownership in Practice ; 10 Property and Agricultural



Policy in Twentieth-Century Romania ; 11 Contemporary Notions and Practices of Landownership in Central Serbia ; 12 The Practices of Landownership in Vojvodina ; Select Bibliography ; Notes on contributors ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection