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Preface

Introduction

1 Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe

I The demographic model

(A) Demography, income distribution and economic

(B) The demographic model in comparative

II The commercialization model

(A) Trade and serfdom

(B) Commercialization and agricultural capitalism

III Class conflict and economic development

(A) The decline of serfdom

(B) The emergence and check of agrarian

2 Population and Class Relations in Feudal Society

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3 Agrarian Class Structure and the Development of Capitalism: France and England Compared

4 Peasant Organization and Class Conflict in Eastern and Western Germany

5 A Reply to Robert Brenner

6 Against the Neo-Malthusian Orthodoxy

7 A Crisis of Feudalism

8 In Search of Agrarian Capitalism

9 Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Bohemia

10 The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism

Introduction

I The demographic model and class

(I.1) Demographic change and income distribution

(1.2) The grand agrarian cycle

(1.3) From malthusian stagnation to economic

II Class structure, class organization and

(II.1) Feudal development and feudal crisis:

(Il.1.1) Peasant possession and surplus extraction by extra-Economic Compulsion

(II.1.2) Lords, Peasants and Declining Productivity

(II.1.3) Forms of Feudal Development: From Colonization to Political Accumulation

(II.2) Demography and development in the growth phase of the economy circa 1150-1300

(II.2.1) The French Economy in the Thirteenth Century:A Falling Rate of Feudal Rent?

(II.2.2) The English Economy in the Thirteenth Century:Demographically Determined Lordly Prosperity?

(II.2.3) Feudal States and Economic Evolution:England versus France

(II.3) The onset of feudal crisis and its forms

(II.3.1) The Output!Population Ceiling: Its Class-Relative Character in Pre-Plague Europe

(II. 3.2) The Crisis of Seigneurial Revenues and its Results

III The outcome of feudal crisis and subsequent patterns of development

(III.1) The roots of the divergences

(III.1.1) The Rise and Decline of Serfdom: East versus West

(III.1.2) The Rise of Capitalist Property Relations on the Land:England versus France

(III.2) Results of the divergences: lords, peasants And capitalist agriculture 1450-1750

(III.2.1) Property Forms and the Evolution of Landownership

(III.2.2) Property Relations and Productivity

(III.2.2.a) Peasant Possession in France versus Capitalist Tenantry in England

(III.2.2.b) Large Tenant Farms in France and England

(III.2.2.c) Agricultural Production: The Long-Term Results in England versus France

(Ill.2.2.d) French and English Agriculture in European

Conclusion: industry, agriculture and Economic development

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