TY - BOOK AU - Blum,Jerome TI - End of the Old Order in Rural Europe T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 1400885779 AV - HN373 U1 - 309.2/63/094 PY - 2017/// PB - Princeton University Press KW - Peasants KW - Europe KW - History KW - Feudalism KW - Social classes KW - Classes sociales KW - Histoire KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Rural conditions KW - Conditions rurales KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover ; Table of Contents; Part 1: The Traditional Order; II. Peasant Diets; III. Beggars, Vagabonds, and Runaways; IV. Prosperous Peasants; Part 2: Transition; II. New Interest in Agriculture; III. The Expansion of Farm Land; IV. Improved Field Systems; V. Enclosure and Consolidation; VI. Improved and New Crops; Part 3: Emancipation N2 - 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1472217 ER -