The essays in this book tap the potential of the historical analysis of social contexts in which property rights are embedded – social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture – to understand how landed resources are actually appropriated. This exploratory approach seeks both to take advantage of the existing theory of property rights, as it is applied by the institutionalist outlook on economic history, and to go beyond it by explicitly incorporating social processes and factors in the analysis of property institutions. With this common aim in mind, the book covers a wide variety of historical cases throughout space and time, from the late Middle Ages in the Czech lands and in Tuscany to the very recent decollectivisation of the countryside in former socialist countries, which will contribute rich and grounded insights to the discussion of the topic and of its implications.

 

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Giuliana BIAGIOLI, Università di Pisa, Italy

Fabrice BOUDJAABA, CNRS (CERHIO-UMR 6258), Rennes, France

Paul BRASSLEY, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Markus CERMAN, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

Jeong Nam CHOI, Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (IAMO) Halle (Saale), Germany

Rosa CONGOST, Universität de Girona, Spain  

Maria HALAMSKA, Warsaw University, Poland  

Richard W. HOYLE, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Inaki IRÌARTE GONI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Michael KOPSIDIS, Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany

José Miguel LANA BERASAIN, Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, Pamplona, Spain

Ernst LANGTHALER, Institute of Rural History, St. Pölten, Austria

Dietmar MÜLLER, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig, Germany

Carsten PORSKROG RASMUSSEN, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Rui SANTOS,  Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Dana STEFANOVÀ, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

Zsuzsanna VARGA,  Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary

Axel WOLZ, Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany