Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony

by Daniel Chirot

Overview

A study of the patterns of social change in Wallachia (in modern-day Romania) from the 13th century to the 20th century. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148222071
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	4 MB

Editorial Reviews

This essay points to the direction in which more scholarship in the field should move. We need more broad analytical studies and perhaps fewer exhaustive depictions of agrarian conditions in a given country for a given decade. Students of Balkan history and of social history in general should find Chirot's book quite stimulating.

The American Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 4, Oct., 1977 - Leonard Olson

This study is a precisely fashioned vignette of the economic history of Wallachia, designed as an empirical warning against the bland universalism of developmental or evolutionary schemes, as an example of the usefulness of modes of production (or what Chirot prefers to call political economies) for identifying types of historical processes, and as a demonstration of the need for exploring the history of any given people in the full light of the histories of other, related peoples.

Social Forces, Vol. 56, No. 1, Sep., 1977 - Kenneth Bock