P?ter Gunst
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1996
What was ?Eastern European? about the historical development of Eastern Europe? How is the region to be defined? And specifically where was Hungary to be situated in relation to it? These are the questions underlying the studies in this volume. In the first part Professor Gunst sets out to analyse some of the characteristics of the economic and social history of Eastern Europe. He then focuses on Hungary and argues that the course of its agrarian development in particular has since the Middle Ages been primarily shaped by the influence and military challenge from the West. The most important factor in this however was the mass immigration of German peasants which had a far-reaching impact on village and community systems and patterns of taxation and crop rotation.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1996
What was ?Eastern European? about the historical development of Eastern Europe? How is the region to be defined? And specifically where was Hungary to be situated in relation to it? These are the questions underlying the studies in this volume. In the first part Professor Gunst sets out to analyse some of the characteristics of the economic and social history of Eastern Europe. He then focuses on Hungary and argues that the course of its agrarian development in particular has since the Middle Ages been primarily shaped by the influence and military challenge from the West. The most important factor in this however was the mass immigration of German peasants which had a far-reaching impact on village and community systems and patterns of taxation and crop rotation.