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Author Wright, William E

Title Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign : Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1966

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE BOHEMIAN SERF TO 1740; 2 THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM DISCOVERED; 3 THE LATER YEARS OF MARIA THERESA; 4 THE RAAB SYSTEM; 5 JOSEPH II, ROYAL REVOLUTIONARY; 6 EXTENSION OF THE RAAB SYSTEM; 7 THE HOYER SYSTEM; 8 TRIALS AND SUCCESSES IN ROBOTA ABOLITION; 9 THE AGRARIAN AND TAX LAW OF 1789; CONCLUSIONS; Appendixes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary This is a detailed history of the agrarian reforms which took place in Bohemia during 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, economic, and political
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Subject Land tenure -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia -- History -- 18th century
Land tenure
Czech Republic -- Bohemia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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