European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites
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aristocratic economic strategies Europe colonies
Aristocratic Economy
Aristocratic Houses
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Author_Paul Janssens
Bartolome Yun-Casalilla
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Colonial Elites
comparative economic systems
early modern history
Early Modern Russia
East Central European Economy
East Elbian Nobility
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estate management
Farm Amalgamation
Gentry Planters
Giovanni Muto
Herbert Knittler
Jean Duma
Jerzy Topolski (+)
Karel Degryse (+)
La Tremoilles
landed nobility
Lorena S. Walsh
Lower Austrian Nobility
management
Marchena Juan F.
Mercantile Oligarchies
Noble Landlords
Noblesse De Robe
Nuno Goncalo Monteiro
Patrick Karl O'Brien
patrimonial
patrimonial governance
Patrimonial Management
Patrimonial Management Strategies
Richard Hellie
Robert C. Allen
Seigniorial Dues
Seigniorial Jurisdiction
Seigniorial Regime
Service Landholdings
Short Term Land Leases
social stratification
State Secretary
strategies
Stuart B. Schwartz
Subject Farmers
Sugar Estates
Unpaid Labor Services
William W. Hagen
Young Man
Yun-Casalilla Bartolome
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- ISBN 9780754654599
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the rise of the modern world, in economic development and capitalism. Generally speaking and with the exception of the English landlords, the verdict has been always negative. Furthermore, historians have usually viewed the Ancien régime aristocracies and colonial elites as social groups with entirely irrational or completely apathetic attitudes towards the management of their estates. This book constitutes the first attempt to analyse the question in a more critical and historical way. It takes a directly comparative approach, covering countries from Peru to Russia and from Naples to England in the early modern period and up to the end of the 18th century. The rationale of how these elites administered their patrimonies, its political, social and sometime moral dimensions, and the real effects of all this on economic development are considered here as key aspects for a better understanding of economic life. The result is a quite different picture in which economic history is also seen as the outcome of human actions in their own social and political context.
Paul Janssens is Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla is Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
