1st Edition
Backwardness and Modernization: Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th�20th Centuries
By Jacek Kochanowicz
Copyright 2006
335 Pages
by
Routledge
The subject of this book is the economic backwardness of Poland and Eastern Europe in the modern era. The studies in the first part analyse various aspects of the region's economic and social history in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries, such as the nature of peasant economics, the character of economic evolution, and the ambiguity of social and economic relations between Poland and... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Backwardness: The peasant family as an economic unit in the Polish feudal economy of the 18th century; Between submission and violence: peasant resistance in the Polish manorial economy of the 18th century; The Polish economy and the evolution of dependency; Could a Polish noble become an entrepreneur? Mentality, market and capital; The economy of the Polish Kingdom: a question of dependence; Globalization and Eastern Europe: 1870-1914, 1970-2000; Poland and the West: in or out? Modernization: Transition to market in a comparative perspective: a historian's point of view; Reforming weak states and deficient bureaucracies; Modernization from above: the end of the road? Leviathan exhausted: ideas on the state of the post-communist transformation; New solidarities? Market change and social cohesion in a historical perspective; Incomplete demise: reflections on the welfare state in Poland after communism; Trajectories of East European transformation: global influence and local legacies. Index.
Biography
Jacek Kochanowicz
