Property in East Central Europe

Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-461-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siegrist, Hannes

Müller, Dietmar

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Property in East Central Europe: Notions, Institutions and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century

Hannes Siegrist and Dietmar Müller

PART I: ECONOMIC HISTORY

Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of Property: Landownership and Modernization in Poland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Jacek Kochanowicz

Chapter 2. Agriculture and Landownership in the Economic History of Twentieth-century Romania

Bogdan Murgescu

PART II: PROPERTY BETWEEN LAW AND POLITICS

Chapter 3. Property in the East Central European Legal Culture

Herbert Küpper

Chapter 4. The Habsburg Cadastral Registration System in the Context of Modernization

Kurt Scharr

Chapter 5. Property between Delimitation and Nationalization: The Notion, Institutions and Practices of Land Proprietorship in Romania, Yugoslavia and Poland, 1918–1948

Dietmar Müller

Chapter 6. Frontline Soldiers into Farmers: Military Colonization in Poland after World War I and World War II

Christhardt Henschel

Chapter 7. The Country Road to Revolution: Transforming Individual Peasant Property into Socialist Property in Yugoslavia, 1945–1953

Jovica Lukovic

PART III: PRACTICES AND MENTALITIES OF LANDOWNERSHIP

Chapter 8. Homeland as Property: Symbolic Ownership and the Local Heritage of the Past in Lemkowyna and the Ukraine

Jacek Nowak

Chapter 9. Landownership in Practice: The Case of the Local Community of Naramice in Central Poland

Pawel Klint

Chapter 10. Property and Agricultural Policy in Twentieth-century Romania: Intentions, Technical Means and Social Realities

Cornel Micu

Chapter 11. Owning Land in Central Serbia: Contemporary Notions and Practices: The Case of Mrcajevci

Srdan Miloševic

Chapter 12. The Practices of Land Ownership in Vojvodina: The Case of Aradac

Jovana Dikovic



Selected Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Siegrist, Hannes
Hannes Siegrist is Professor for social and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe at the University of Leipzig. He is the co-editor of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung and the book-series “Moderne europäische Geschichte” with Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen. His publications include Intellectual Property Rights and Globalization (special issue of Comparativ, 2011), Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich: 18.-20. Jahrhundert (with David Sugarman, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999).

Müller, Dietmar
Dietmar Müller has conducted and coordinated research projects on land ownership and legal culture in East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig and at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at the same university. In 2012/13 he was Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. Among his property-related publications are the co-edited volume Transforming Rural Societies (with Angela Harre, StudienVerlag 2010) and Institutionen und Kultur in Südosteuropa (with Wim van Meurs, Otto Sagner 2013).

Hannes Siegrist is Professor for social and cultural history of modern and contemporary Europe at the University of Leipzig. He is the co-editor of Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung and the book-series “Moderne europäische Geschichte” with Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen. His publications include Intellectual Property Rights and Globalization (special issue of Comparativ, 2011), Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich: 18.-20. Jahrhundert (with David Sugarman, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999).