Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign

Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-Century Bohemia

Author:

William E. Wright

William E. Wright is professor emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota. He has also taught at the University of Colorado.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1 THE BOHEMIAN SERF TO 1740
2 THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM DISCOVERED
3 THE LATER YEARS OF MARIA THERESA
4 THE RAAB SYSTEM
5 JOSEPH II, ROYAL REVOLUTIONARY
6 EXTENSION OF THE RAAB SYSTEM
7 THE HOYER SYSTEM
8 TRIALS AND SUCCESSES IN ROBOTA ABOLITION
9 THE AGRARIAN AND TAX LAW OF 1789

CONCLUSIONS

Appendixes

I KOSCHUMBERG CONTRACT
II ABOLITION FOR ZAHORAN (HOYER)
III ABOLITION FOR DEUTSCHBROD (ERBEN)
V CONTRACT FOR SALE OF SERF-HELD LAND
VI DOCUMENT DISPOSSESSING SERF FOR POOR HUSBANDRY
VII BOHEMIAN AND AUSTRIAN MONEY, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX