LEADER 03677nam 2200601 a 450 001 996248106703316 005 20221103135432.0 010 $a0-585-17645-0 010 $a0-520-91191-1 024 7 $a2027/heb04981 035 $a(CKB)111057870437034 035 $a(dli)HEB04981 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216430 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216430 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214814 035 $a(PQKB)11421266 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007008882 035 $a(DE-B1597)649399 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520911918 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870437034 100 $a19891127d1989 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe $eeconomics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century /$fedited by Daniel Chirot 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1989 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 260 p. ) 300 $aPapers originally presented at a conference in June 1985 at Bellagio, Italy. 311 $a0-520-07640-0 311 $a0-520-06421-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Causes and Consequences of Backwardness -- $t2. Economic Backwardness in Eastern Europe in Light of Developments in the West -- $t3. Agrarian Systems of Central and Eastern Europe -- $t4. The Polish Economy and the Evolution of Dependency -- $t5. Tradition and Rural Change in Southeastern Europe During Ottoman Rule -- $t6. Imperial Borderlands or Capitalist Periphery? Redefining Balkan Backwardness, 1520-1914 -- $t7. The Social Origins of East European Politics -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aReaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world except for that unique part of the West which has given us a false model of what was "normal," Eastern Europe developed slowly. The weight of established class relations, geography, lack of technological innovation, and wars kept the area from growing richer.In the nineteenth century the West exerted a powerful influence, but it was political more than economic. Nationalism and the creation of newly independent aspiring nation-states then began to shape national economies, often in unfavorable ways.One of this book's most important lessons is that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes. The authors offer no simple explanations but rather a theoretically complex synthesis that demonstrates the interaction of politics and economics. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aEconomic History$2HILCC 606 $aBusiness & Economics$2HILCC 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xEconomic conditions$vCongresses 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$vCongresses 615 7$aEconomic History 615 7$aBusiness & Economics 676 $a330.947 700 $aChirot$b Daniel, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 701 $aChirot$b Daniel$0158335 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248106703316 996 $aThe Origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe$92419546 997 $aUNISA