Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe was a major historical debate in Past & Present following from Robert Brenner's article in issue 70. Postan and characterised the debate as attempting to determine whether Malthusian cyclic explanations of population and development, or social class explanations governed demographic and economic change in Europe. The debate confounded existing beliefs regarding class relations in the Economy of England in the Middle Ages and agricultural societies with serfdom in general, engaging 20th century historiography of the economics of feudalism in the West and the Soviet Union.
- M. M. Postan, John Hatcher, "Population and Class relations in Feudal society" Past & Present 78 (1) 24–25
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