Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Le maintien d’une différence fondamentale de statut entre libres et non libres constitue une des caractéristiques majeures de la société médiévale ; et cette dépendance se fait d’autant plus marquée que les franchises des XIIe et XIIIe siècles caractérisent un nombre croissant de communautés. La servitude présente ce paradoxe troublant d’un statut théorisé par les légistes mais qui dans la réalité s’éparpille en une infinité de variantes. La difficile appréhension du servage réside en ce paradoxe : définir ce qui, au-delà des variations locales, fait du servage un des piliers de la seigneurie et du système social du Moyen Âge. Héritière d’une histoire pluriséculaire, l’abbaye de Saint-Claude constitue un exemple de ces grandes seigneuries ecclésiastiques impériales, caractérisées par le maintien jusqu’à une date tardive d’une servitude étendue à toutes les populations rurales de son domaine. La servitude sanclaudienne participe de ce mouvement général de durcissement des conditions de dépendance que l’on observe en Occident à la fin du Moyen Âge. Elle en possède les caractéristiques essentielles, où derrière la relation personnelle qui unit le serf à son maître se lit la volonté de contrôler la terre et les hommes. Mais loin de n’être qu’un outil fiscal ou un instrument d’oppression de la paysannerie, le servage constitue un phénomène pleinement sociologique. La mise en place et la généralisation du statut au cours du XIVe siècle révèlent le poids considérable des communautés rurales, qui viennent s’interposer entre le seigneur et ses hommes, médiatisant un rapport personnel qui tend à s’alourdir. Le servage sanclaudien n’est en rien un servage résiduel, qui ne pèserait que sur les plus pauvres. Les paysans bénéficient même collectivement de droits étendus ; c’est sans doute dans ce balancement entre le collectif et l’individuel que l’on peut chercher une explication à la mise en place du servage.

Serfs --- Servage --- Saint-Claude (France) --- Serfdom. --- Serfs. --- Horigheid. --- Kloosterleven. --- Leibeigenschaft. --- Grundherrschaft. --- Unfreiheit. --- Geschichte 1100-1500 --- Saint-Claude. --- French mediaeval social history --- Jura --- 12th-16th centuries --- Geschichte 1100-1500. --- Franche-Comté. --- Middeleeuwen. --- Serfdom --- History --- To 1500. --- France --- Histoire --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales --- Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- serfs --- société médiévale --- pouvoir seigneurial --- communauté rurale

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavement, through colonialism, to the neocolonial era. Delving into the historiography of dispossession and displacement on the continent of Africa, and in particular in Zimbabwe, this book also tackles contemporary forms of dispossession and displacement manifesting in the ongoing transnational corporations land grabs in Africa, wherein African peasants continue to be dispossessed and displaced. Focusing on the topical issues around dispossession and repossession of land, and the attendant displacements in contemporary Zimbabwe, the book theorises displacements from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective and it also unpacks various forms of displacements -- corporeal, noncorporeal, cognitive, spiritual, genealogical and linguistic displacements, among others. The book is an excellent read for scholars from a variety of disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Development Studies, Science and technology Studies, Jurisprudence and Social Theory, Law and Philosophy. The book also offers intellectual grit for policy makers and implementers, civil society organisations including activists as well as thinkers interested in decolonisation and transformation.

Decolonization --- Land tenure --- Land reform --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- History. --- History --- E-books

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book focuses on the work of one of the leading African scholars on the land question and agrarian transformation in Africa--Sam Moyo. It offers a critical discussion, in conversation with Sam Moyo, of the land question and the response of African states. Since independence, African states have been trying to address the colonial legacy on land policy and governance. After six decades of formulating and implementing land reforms, most countries have not succeeded in decolonising approaches to land policy and the administrative framework. The book brings together the broader debates on the implications of decolonisation of Africa's land policy. Through case studies from several African countries, the book offers an empirical analysis on land reforms and the emerging land relations, and how these affect land allocation and use, including agricultural production. Most of the chapters discuss how the unresolved land question in post-colonial Africa impacts on agricultural production and rural development broadly. The failure to decolonise colonial land policy and the imported tenure systems has left post-colonial African states dancing to two tunes, resulting in schizophrenic land and agrarian policies. The book demonstrates that the failure by African states to reconcile imported and indigenous land tenure systems and practices is evident in the deliberate denigration of customary tenure. It is also evident in the rising land inequality and the neglect of the agricultural sector, the small-scale and subsistence sub-sectors in particular.

Decolonization --- Agriculture and state --- Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Moyo, Sam. --- Africa --- Colonial influence. --- E-books

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Centré sur les structures féodales rurales, le livre vise à répondre à travers une comparaison internationale à l’échelle du Vieux Continent à quelques grandes questions : – En dépit de l’extrême diversification des formes de la seigneurie, n’y a-t-il pas sur les traits majeurs une certaine uniformité dans toute l’Europe ? – Ne faut-il pas, pour comprendre les ressemblances et différences, faire intervenir dans le jeu paysans-seigneurs trois autres acteurs, l’un direct la noblesse, les deux autres externes : l’État et la ville ? Du même coup, si l’ouvrage de Guy Lemarchand se veut essentiellement un livre d’histoire sociale, il ne peut se couper de l’énoncé de certaines grandes données économiques et démographiques dont le poids effectif doit être discuté. De là toute une série de questions supplémentaires : – La grande question du « pourquoi la liberté paysanne à l’Ouest, le servage à l’Est ? », peut-elle être résolue en s’en tenant à l’histoire nationale de chaque État ? Pourquoi seulement « une féodalité naissante au Sud-Est » ? – Quelles sont les raisons de la vague d’abolition de la féodalité qui parcourt l’Europe de 1760 à 1860 et quelle est la validité du couple théorique « révolution par le bas » et « révolution par le haut » ? Quel est alors le rôle de la Révolution française et du grand Empire napoléonien dans l’évolution européenne ? Au simple énoncé de ces interrogations, on comprendra toute l’ambition de l’ouvrage de Guy Lemarchand.

Peasants --- Serfdom --- Land tenure --- Nobility --- History. --- Europe --- Rural conditions. --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Servitude --- Forced labor --- Slavery --- Villeinage --- Law and legislation --- Histoire sociale --- XVIe-XIXe s., 1501-1900 --- Paysannerie --- Seigneurie --- Noblesse --- Peasants - Europe - History. --- Serfdom - Europe - History. --- Land tenure - Europe - History. --- Nobility - Europe - History. --- Europe - Rural conditions. --- rapports sociaux --- paysan --- système seigneurial --- féodalité --- seigneurerie

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Land settlement schemes, sponsored by national governments and businesses, such as the Ford Corporation and the Hudson’s Bay Company, took place in locations as diverse as the Canadian Prairies, the Dutch polders, and the Amazonian rainforests. This novel contribution evaluates a diverse range of these initiatives.By 1900, any land that remained available for agricultural settlement was often far from the settlers’ homes and located in challenging physical environments. Over the course of the twentieth century, governments, corporations and frequently desperate individuals sought out new places to settle across the globe from Alberta to Papua New Guinea. This book offers vivid reports of the difficulties faced by many of these settlers, including the experiences of East European Jewish refugees, New Zealand soldier settlers and urban families from Yorkshire.This book considers how and why these settlement schemes succeeded, found other pathways to sustainability or succumbed to failure and even oblivion. In doing so, the book indicates pathways for the achievement of more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable forms of human settlement in marginal areas. This engaging collection will be of interest to individuals in the fields of historical geography, environmental history and development studies.

Land settlement --- Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Human settlements --- History --- Colonisation intérieure --- Propriété foncière --- Établissements humains --- Utilisation agricole du sol --- Histoire