Peasants into Citizens
The Politicisation of Rural Areas in Central Europe (1861-1914)
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Peasants into Citizens
The Politicisation of Rural Areas in Central Europe (1861-1914)
About this book
Peasants and Citizens explores the processes leading the rural populations of East Central Europe between the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to participate in public affairs more actively, by employing a comparative perspective. Seven historians from Europe, the United States, and Japan investigate processes through which civic structures were created in rural areas in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The authors study the factors that led the peasants gain greater confidence in their social position and an interest in politics and detect three key agents of change in the countryside: national movements, agricultural associations, and the extension of the franchise.These contributions enable us to compare the different conditions leading to developments in the political life in various parts of East Central Europe. For example, while there had been universal male suffrage in Cisleithania since 1907, in Romania only six percent of adult men had a direct vote to the Chamber in 1911. The book extends the study of peasant politicization to territories that have remained rather neglected until now. This applies mainly to the Bohemian lands but also, to a certain extent, to Hungary and Romania. These new findings complement those from the longer tradition of research in this particular field, as in the case of Prussian Poland and Galicia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Pages
- Contents
- Milan Řepa: Introduction. The Politicization of Rural Areas: The Case of East Central Europe
- Kai Struve: Civil Society, Peasants, and Nationalism in Austrian Galicia from the 1860s until 1914
- Torsten Lorenz: Civil Society in Polish Cooperatives in the Province of Posen before the First World War
- Yuko Kiryu: Farmers as New Citizens and Members of the Czech Nation: Agricultural Associations and the Transformation of Local Societies in Rural Bohemia
- Pavel Kladiwa: The Countryside between the State, Nation and Civil Society: External Impulses and Local Initiatives
- Andrea Pokludová: The Role of Teachers and Parish Priests as Agents of Economic, Social and Cultural Change in Rural Areas 1861–1918
- John C. Swanson: An Era of Ethnic Protection: “Defending” the Rural German Speakers in Hungary during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Sorin Radu: Subjects or Citizens? Party Politics and the Peasants’ Right to Vote in Romania (1866–1918)
- List of Contributors