TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krzysztof Brzechczyn
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783631813713
TI  - The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe
T2  - A Study in the Philosophy of History
DO  - 10.3726/b17029
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068873
N2  - The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – between burghers and the nobility. The political dominance of the nobility hampered the development of cities and limited the influence of burghers, paving the way to the rise of serfdom and manorial farms. These processes were accompanied by increased demand for agricultural products in Western Europe
KW  - modeling, cascade process, manorial-serf economy, economic dualism, economical backwardness, modern history
LA  - English
ER  -