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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the transformation of the old rural order to the modern class society. While historians have studied this transition as it occurred in individual countries, Jerome Blum offers the first view of it as a European experience tha transcended political frontiers.

Originally published in 1978.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. xiii-2
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 3-8
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  1. Part 1. The Traditional Order
  1. 1. The Seigniors
  2. pp. 11-28
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  1. 2. The Peasants
  2. pp. 29-49
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  1. 3. The Obligations of the Peasantry
  2. pp. 50-79
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  1. 4. The Privileges of the Seigniors
  2. pp. 80-94
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  1. 5. Peasants, Large, Middling, and Small
  2. pp. 95-115
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  1. 6. The Retardation of Agriculture: Techniques and Implements
  2. pp. 116-137
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  1. 7. The Retardation of Agriculture: Crops and Livestock
  2. pp. 138-154
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  1. 8. The Rural Economy
  2. pp. 155-177
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  1. 9. The Condition of the Peasantry
  2. pp. 178-194
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  1. Part 2. Transition
  1. 10. Absolute Monarchy and the Nobility
  2. pp. 197-215
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  1. 11. First Attempts at Reform
  2. pp. 216-240
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  1. 12. New Directions in Agriculture
  2. pp. 241-281
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  1. 13. The Improvers
  2. pp. 282-304
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  1. 14. The Old Order Attacked and Defended
  2. pp. 305-331
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  1. 15. Peasant Unrest
  2. pp. 332-354
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  1. Part 3. Emancipation
  1. 16. Background of the Emancipation
  2. pp. 357-376
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  1. 17. The Reforms
  2. pp. 377-400
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  1. 18. Pluses and Minuses
  2. pp. 401-417
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  1. 19. From Order to Class
  2. pp. 418-442
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  1. List of Works Cited
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 489-506
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