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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Les biens communaux: Common lands, property rights, and agrarian modernization in early modern Burgundy, 1550--1789 Abstract: Historians of early modern France long construed agrarian modernization as a process working to transform, and eventually to eliminate, traditional peasant agriculture and collective property rights. Finding no such transformation, they long focused attention on accounting for the causes and long-term consequences of agricultural underdevelopment and even stagnation. This long-term historical study of communal property rights in Burgundy contends that transformational modernization theories tend to minimize, if not ignore, the positive contributions that traditional rural societies have made to the making of the modern world. It demonstrates that in spite of exploitive lordships and powerful village communities, modern private property rights emerged at the local level when seigneurs adapted traditional feudal prerogatives to secure the benefits of commerce. |
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