The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe: A Study in the Philosophy of History

ISBN-13: 9783631809907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 394 str.

Klara Naszkowska; Krzysztof Brzechczyn

Opis

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16^th and the 17^th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of such factors as the weakness of cities, political dominance.

Spis treści

Economic dualism - manorial-serf economy - modern history - economic backwardness - Central Europe - modeling in history - idealization - non-Marxian historical materialism - theory of history - cascade process

O autorze

Krzysztof Brzechczyn is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna´n. He has authored several books and papers in different languages. His fields of interest include modern history, intellectual history, philosophy of history, social philosophy, and theory of historiography.