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

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

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Description 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Economic history Land tenure Politics and government Post-communism Real property Right of property Social conditions SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005818 Subject Eastern Europe Poland Romania Yugoslavia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Siegrist, Hannes, editor Müller, Dietmar, 1969- editor. ISBN 9781782384625 1782384626

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