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Servants in Rural Europe

Author : Jane Whittle
Publisher : People, Markets, Goods: Econom
ISBN 13 : 9781783272396
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (723 download)

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Book Synopsis Servants in Rural Europe by : Jane Whittle

Download or read book Servants in Rural Europe written by Jane Whittle and published by People, Markets, Goods: Econom. This book was released on 2017 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tended to be employed for long periods, several months to years at a time, and were paid with food and lodging as well as cash wages. Both women and men worked as servants in large numbers. Unlike domestic servants in towns and wealthy households, rural servants typically worked on farms and were an important element of the agricultural workforce. Historians have viewed service as a distinct life-cycle stage between childhood and marriage. It brought both freedom and servility for young people. It allowed them to leave home and earn a living before marriage, whilst learning a range of agricultural and craft skills which reduced their dependence on their parents and increased their choice in marriage partners. Still, servants had limited rights: they were under the authority of their employer, with a similar legal status to children. In many countries the employment of servants was tightly controlled by law. Servants could demand their wages, and leave when the contract ended, but had to work long hours and had little say in their work tasks during employment. While some servants effectively became family members, trusted and cared for, others were abused physically and sexually by their employers. This collection features a range of methodologies, reflecting the variety of source materials and approaches available to historians of this topic in a range of European countries and time periods. Nonetheless, it demonstrates the strong common themes that emerge from studying servants and will be of particular interest to historians of work, gender, the family, agriculture, economic development, youth and social structure. JANE WHITTLE is Professor of Rural History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: CHRISTINE FERTIG, JEREMY HAYHOE, SARAH HOLLAND, THIJS LAMBRECHT, CHARMIAN MANSELL, HANNE ØSTHUS, RICHARD PAPING, CRISTINA PRYTZ, RAFFAELLA SARTI, CAROLINA UPPENBERG, LIES VERVAET, JANE WHITTLE

Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900

Author : Christine Fertig
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327722X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900 by : Christine Fertig

Download or read book Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900 written by Christine Fertig and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society.

The Making of Rural Europe

Author : Helen Douglas-Irvine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of Rural Europe by : Helen Douglas-Irvine

Download or read book The Making of Rural Europe written by Helen Douglas-Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe

Author : Joachim Eibach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429633238
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe by : Joachim Eibach

Download or read book The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe written by Joachim Eibach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective. The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provides an overview of the domestic sphere as a location of work and consumption, conflict and cooperation, emotions and intimacy, and devotion and education. The book sheds light on changing relations between spouses, parents and children, masters and servants or apprentices, and humans and animals or plants, thereby exceeding the notion of the modern nuclear family. This volume will be of great use to upper-level graduates, postgraduates and experienced scholars interested in the history of family, household, social space, gender, emotions, material culture, work and private life in early modern and nineteenth-century Europe.

Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000

Author : Yves Segers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277122
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000 by : Yves Segers

Download or read book Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000 written by Yves Segers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries.

A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720

Author : Sheldon J. Watts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351720392
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720 by : Sheldon J. Watts

Download or read book A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720 written by Sheldon J. Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to understand the lives – both internal and external – of rural people in his fascinating period that is so central to everyone’s past.

Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900452942X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers? Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer, Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers, Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, Rogério Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani, Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.

Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

Author : Josef Ehmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111147967
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Book Synopsis Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History by : Josef Ehmer

Download or read book Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History written by Josef Ehmer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England

Author : Ann Kussmaul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521235662
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England by : Ann Kussmaul

Download or read book Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England written by Ann Kussmaul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores servants in husbandry and considers the wider historiographical implications.

The Whole Economy

Author : Catriona Macleod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009359339
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Whole Economy written by Catriona Macleod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth in the northwest – which, in turn, was linked to the global redistribution of resources and upon which industrialisation depended – the book spans key arenas in which women produced change: households, care, agriculture, rural manufacture, urban markets, migration, and war. The analysis refutes the stubborn contention of mainstream economic history that we can generalise about economic performance by focusing solely on the work of adult men and demonstrates that women were active agents in the early modern economy rather than passively affected by changes wrought upon them.

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy

Author : Iman Sheeha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100007451X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy by : Iman Sheeha

Download or read book Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy written by Iman Sheeha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant relationships beyond elite and aristocratic circles, the focus of previous studies. Drawing on early modern advice literature, household guides, domestic manuals, sermons, treatises, proverbs, mothers’ legacies, funeral sermons, diaries, letters, and jest books as well as making use of the recent findings by social and cultural historians of early modern England, the book examines the consequences of disordered domesticity for the master-servant relationship. This study nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship, arguing against overarching, reductive narratives. The book argues that the experience of household service as depicted in domestic tragedy, like in real life, was complex and varied and that there was no typical experience of service.

Rethinking the Great Transition

Author : Peter L. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192666819
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Great Transition written by Peter L. Larson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.

Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800

Author : Judith M. Bennett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200217
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 by : Judith M. Bennett

Download or read book Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 written by Judith M. Bennett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families—married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives. Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight the important minority of women who never married but also the first to address the critical matter of differences among women from the perspective of marital status. Essays by leading scholars—among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry Wiesner—deal with topics including the sexual and emotional relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the experiences of singlewomen in earlier times.

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000709590
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe by : Amanda L. Capern

Download or read book The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe written by Amanda L. Capern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

The Early Modern European Economy

Author : Peter Musgrave
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349275352
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Early Modern European Economy written by Peter Musgrave and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, study of the early modern economy in Europe has tended to have heroes and villains: the former being the progressive and 'modern' economies of the Netherlands and England, and the latter being doomed, backward and Catholic Italy and Spain. This picture has now changed quite drastically, and there is far more emphasis on the general growth of the European economy during this period. The progressive removal of the neighbouring threats to European prosperity (particularly the gradual crippling of Ottoman power) created an environment which benefited all societies and not simply the traditionally emphasised 'Atlantic' economies.

Family Forms in Historic Europe

Author : Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521245470
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Family Forms in Historic Europe by : Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Download or read book Family Forms in Historic Europe written by Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-03-10 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our relationship with the peoples of the other continents of the world as well. This book is an attempt to recover the different familial systems and compare them with one another. The studies range from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Austria to Scandinavia, Flanders and Britain. All the influences which have affected the character and composition of European households are taken into account. The analysis covers their function as productive work groups, in the procreation and bringing up of children, and in the support of the elderly, and their relationship with the wider society and its norms along with its political organization, central and local. Claims that inheritance customs and inheritance practice and the occupation of the household head exerted a powerful influence on the size and composition of households are subjected to rigorous and systematic investigation.

Marriage and Rural Economy

Author : Isabelle Devos
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Rural Economy written by Isabelle Devos and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of marriage in Western Europe, because of its peculiarities when viewed in a global setting, compels attention. This volume examines rural marriage patterns in the long run, relating these to changing economic conditions in the North Sea area, from c. 1400 to the present. More than thirty years after Hajnal's path-breaking publication it presents a state of the art as regards the study of the European Marriage Pattern in Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia. By examining different forms of rural economy such as peasant farming, capitalist farming, prot-industry and other systems of production with differing implications for marriage and family formation, demographic and economic mechanisms emerge more clearly. Turning from description to explanation, a complex of interacting factors which regulate the formation of new households is identified and new directions into the research of this phenomenon are promoted. This volume comprises 11 article-chapters and introduction and conclusion and is the result of international collaboration from members of the CORN network. It is a work of richness, subtlety and historical depth, which makes essential reading for those interested in the evolution of marriage patterns, in the distant past and in more recent times.