The Prussian Transition: Full-Blooded Capitalism From Above and Its Consequences

Terence J. Byres
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Chapter 4 in Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below, 1996, pp 104-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1799, in response to ‘the distant effect of the French Revolution and the increasing ferment among the peasant population’ [Harnisch, 1986: 65], in all provinces peasants on the royal demesnes were given the opportunity to commute labour services into annual money rents; while in a few provinces peasants were allowed to purchase holdings by paying the so-called Erbstandsgeld [Harnisch, 1986: 64]. But the Junkers resisted successfully attempts to abolish hereditary serfdom or commute feudal dues (especially labour obligations) into money rents on private land: such attempts failing to proceed beyond the stage of preliminary negotiations (loc. cit.).

Keywords: Sugar Beet; Root Crop; Eastern Province; Agrarian Reform; Capitalist Industrialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25117-9_4

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