Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Hannes Siegrist, Dietmar Müller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2014
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-461-8 (ISBN)

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Scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.

Hannes Siegrist is Professor for social and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe at the University of Leipzig. He is the co-editor of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung and the book-series “Moderne europäische Geschichte” with Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen. His publications include Intellectual Property Rights and Globalization (special issue of Comparativ, 2011), Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich: 18.-20. Jahrhundert (with David Sugarman, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Property in East Central Europe: Notions, Institutions and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Hannes Siegrist and Dietmar Müller

PART I: ECONOMIC HISTORY

Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of Property: Landownership and Modernization in Poland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Jacek Kochanowicz

Chapter 2. Agriculture and Landownership in the Economic History of Twentieth-century Romania

Bogdan Murgescu

PART II: PROPERTY BETWEEN LAW AND POLITICS

Chapter 3. Property in the East Central European Legal Culture

Herbert Küpper

Chapter 4. The Habsburg Cadastral Registration System in the Context of Modernization

Kurt Scharr

Chapter 5. Property between Delimitation and Nationalization: The Notion, Institutions and Practices of Land Proprietorship in Romania, Yugoslavia and Poland, 1918–1948

Dietmar Müller

Chapter 6. Frontline Soldiers into Farmers: Military Colonization in Poland after World War I and World War II

Christhardt Henschel

Chapter 7. The Country Road to Revolution: Transforming Individual Peasant Property into Socialist Property in Yugoslavia, 1945–1953

Jovica Luković

PART III: PRACTICES AND MENTALITIES OF LANDOWNERSHIP

Chapter 8. Homeland as Property: Symbolic Ownership and the Local Heritage of the Past in Lemkowyna and the Ukraine

Jacek Nowak

Chapter 9. Landownership in Practice: The Case of the Local Community of Naramice in Central Poland

Paweł Klint

Chapter 10. Property and Agricultural Policy in Twentieth-century Romania: Intentions, Technical Means and Social Realities

Cornel Micu

Chapter 11. Owning Land in Central Serbia: Contemporary Notions and Practices: The Case of Mrčajevci

Srđan Milošević

Chapter 12. The Practices of Land Ownership in Vojvodina: The Case of Aradac

Jovana Diković

Selected Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2014
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78238-461-8 / 1782384618
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-461-8 / 9781782384618
Zustand	Neuware