Search for dissertations about: "peasantry"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the word peasantry.

  2. 6. Volatility, integration and grain banks : studies in harvests, rye prices and institutional development of the parish magasins in Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries

    Author : Bengt-Åke Berg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This study is the first to focus primarily on the Swedish parish magasins, the country’s most widespread credit institution in the last half of the 18th, and the first part of the 19th, century. During the Early Modern Period, grain price volatility was a matter of great concern. READ MORE

  4. 7. `Tenants of the State' : The Limitations of Revolutionary Agrarian Transformation in Ethiopia, 1974-1991

    Author : Teketel Abebe Kebede; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; villagization; agarian transformation; agrarian reform; agrarian policy; Ethiopia; peasants; state-peasant relations; Sociologi;

    Abstract : This study is about the agrarian reforms and policies of the military regime in Ethiopia in the period of its rule between 1974 and 1991. It is a descriptive and qualitative study of a set of agrarian policies which seeks to establish both the unrealized potential of the early and baisc reforms such as the 1975 Land Reform and Peasant Associations and the limitations of subsquent policies of collectivization, compulsory villagization, resettlement and centralized command procurement. READ MORE

  5. 8. Confessional Civilising in Ukraine : The Bishop Iosyf Shumliansky and the Introduction of Reforms in the Diocese of Lviv 1668-1708

    Author : Piotr Wawrzeniuk; David Gaunt; Frank E. Sysyn; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early Modern; Poland; Ukraine; Greek Orthodox Church; Greek Catholic Church; Uniate Church; Confessionalisation; Lviv; Lwów; Lemberg; History; Historia;

    Abstract : This work examines and analyses the reform attempts undertaken by the Greek Orthodox and Uniate Bishop of Lviv, Iosyf Shumliansky, during his episcopacy (1668-1708). These reforms are seen as a means of facing the intensified confessionalising pressures at state and regional levels in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. READ MORE

  6. 9. Russia on the Move-The Railroads and the Exodus From Compulsory Collectivism 1861-1914

    Author : Sylvia Sztern; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Institutions; technology; village commune-obshchina; insurance; famines; calamities; railroads; rationality; collectivism; individualism;

    Abstract : Western scholars of Tsarist Russia emphasize the continuity of collectivism on the Russian plain. Numerous endogenous factors explain the human clustering that occurred as kinship structures evolved into territorial agrarian communal patterns. READ MORE

  7. 10. States of Development : Essays on the Political Economy of Development in Asia

    Author : Nathaniel Lane; Torsten Persson; Rohini Pande; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic Development; Industrial Development; Economic Institutions; Political Economy; State Capacity; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Manufacturing Revolutions - Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea. This chapter uses a historic big push intervention and newly digitized data from South Korea to study the effects of industrial policy on industrial development. In 1973 South Korea transitioned to a military dictatorship and drastically changed their development strategy. READ MORE