Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600–1900: Boydell Studies in Rural History

Edited by Christine Fertig, Richard Paping and Henry French

Introduction - Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French 1. The treballadors of Girona: evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries) - Arnau Barquer i Cerdà 2. The squatter economy of the English countryside - building new landless communities in England c. 1600-1900 - John Broad 3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600-1900 - Richard Paping 4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s: access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi-landless households, c. 1850-1900 - Wouter Ronsijn 5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders: the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500-1900) - ¿ Dieter Bruneel 6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760-1835: A comparison of two southern English rural communities - Henry French 7. Landless rural households in France 1852-1910 - Nadine Vivier 8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime: non-landed households in seventeenth-century Sweden and Finland - Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström 9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio-economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland - Merja Uotila 10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions: Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - Margareth Lanzinger 11. Cottages, barns and bake houses: Landless rural households in North-western Germany in the eighteenth century - Christine Fertig