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- Dribe, Martin, et al.
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If the landlord so wanted… Family, farm production and land transfers in the manorial system
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Ingår i: Economic History Review. - : Wiley. - 1468-0289 .- 0013-0117. ; 65:2, s. 746-769
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedThe manorial system was a salient feature of the pre-industrial economy in Europe from the early middle ages until the late nineteenth century. Despite its importance, it is not usually the main focus of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European economic history. Looking at a vital manorial economy, this article deals with land transmissions, a crucial factor in the socioeconomic reproduction of pre-industrial societies, and demonstrates both similarities and important differences between the tenants on manorial land and freeholders. Although their strategies were often similar, we show that the manorial system consisted of a two-party government-the landlord and the tenant-whose interests did not always coincide. In the nineteenth century, market expansion and commercialization promoted more active landlord strategies in terms of demesne expansions and by means of implementing short-term leases. This made intergenerational transfers within the family increasingly difficult for tenants.
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- Dribe, Martin, et al.
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Marriage seasonality and the industrious revolution: southern Sweden, 1690-1895
- 2012
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Ingår i: Economic History Review. - : Wiley. - 1468-0289 .- 0013-0117. ; 65:3, s. 1123-1146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedIn this article we study the evolution of marriage seasonality in relation to economic change, particularly connected to changes in labour supply and work intensity of the kind implied by the ‘industrious revolution’. The focus is on southern Sweden in 1685–1894, which was a period of agricultural transformation and early industrialization, when we would expect to see an increase in work intensity. The analysis is based on about 120,000 marriages from 117 different parishes. The analysis shows that the seasonality of marriage changed dramatically over time, from a classic grain production pattern, with a marriage peak in late spring and a marriage trough at harvest time, to a much more even seasonality, although with the appearance of a very strong peak in December. This change affected rural rather than urban areas, and was present regardless of differences in institutional settings, and for almost all occupational groups below the elite. The changed seasonality pattern is consistent with increasing work intensity over the year, leaving only the weeks around Christmas as a low season. In addition to the increase in work intensity, the privatization of marriage and the availability of time and resources were also important factors in the changing seasonality pattern.
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- Kander, Astrid, et al.
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Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815-1913: a new comparison
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Ingår i: Economic History Review. - : Wiley. - 1468-0289 .- 0013-0117. ; 64:1, s. 1-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the proposition that a reason for high agricultural productivity in the early nineteenth century was relatively high energy availability from draught animals. The article is based on the collection of extensive new data indicating different trends in draught power availability and the efficiency of its use in different countries of Europe. This article shows that the proposition does not hold, and demonstrates that, although towards the end of the nineteenth century England had relatively high numbers of draught animals per agricultural worker, it also had low number of workers and animals per hectare, indicating the high efficiency of muscle power, rather than an abundance of such power.The higher efficiency was related to a specialization on less labour-intensive farming and a preference for horses over oxen.
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- Edvinsson, Rodney
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New annual estimates of Swedish GDP, 1800-2010
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - : Wiley. - 0013-0117 .- 1468-0289. ; 66:4, s. 1101-1126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the historical national accounts of Sweden are among the most detailed in the world, there is scope for improvement. This study revises previous historical estimates of Swedish GDP. Agricultural output is upgraded for the nineteenth century following recent research by Swedish agrarian historians on the underestimation of official statistics. Estimates of annual fluctuations before 1861 are significantly improved by using new sources on yield ratios of harvests. For manufacturing, home industries are added, in accordance with modern international guidelines (2008 SNA). The study concludes that early nineteenth-century Sweden was not as poor relative to other West European countries as previously thought.
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- Magnusson, Lars, 1952-
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The Evolution of Nordic Finance
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0013-0117 .- 1468-0289. ; 65:1, s. 397-398
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