Servants in Rural Europe : 1400-1900 /: 1400-1900. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jane Whittle.
• Other Names: Whittle, Jane; Economic History Society.
• Contents: Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Note on Terminology -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Servants in the Economy and Society of Rural Europe -- 1. The Employment of Servants in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Coastal Flanders: A Case Study of Scueringhe Farm near Bruges -- 2. The Institution of Service in Rural Flanders in the Sixteenth Century: A Regional Perspective -- 3. A Different Pattern of Employment: Servants in Rural England c.1500-1660 -- 4. Female Service and the Village Community in South-West England 1550-1650: The Labour Laws Reconsidered -- 5. Life-Cycle Servant and Servant for Life: Work and Prospects in Rural Sweden c.1670-1730 -- 6. Servants in Rural Norway c.1650-1800 -- 7. Rural Servants in Eighteenth-Century Münsterland, North- Western Germany: Households, Families and Servants in the Countryside -- 8. Rural Servants in Eastern France 1700-1872: Change and Continuity Over Two Centuries -- 9. The Servant Institution During the Swedish Agrarian Revolution: The Political Economy of Subservience -- 10. Farm Service and Hiring Practices in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: The Doncaster Region in the West Riding of Yorkshire -- 11. Dutch Live-In Farm Servants in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Decline of the Life-Cycle Service System for the Rural Lower Class -- 12. Rural Life-Cycle Service: Established Interpretations and New (Surprising) Data -- The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 331.7/6164094; Household employees -- Europe -- Rural conditions -- History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century; Ländlicher Raum; Diener; Arbeiter; Europe; Europa; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787441378; 1787441377; 9781787441316; 1787441318
• Related ISBNs: 9781783272396; 1783272392
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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