Servants in Rural Europe : 1400-1900 /: 1400-1900. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Servants in Rural Europe : 1400-1900 /: 1400-1900. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Servants in Rural Europe : 1400-1900
- 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)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. … (more)
- 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.
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