The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe : : A Study in the Philosophy of History.

• Superior document: Studies in History, Memory and Politics Series ; v.31
• Author: Naszkowska, Klara.
• TeilnehmendeR: Brzechczyn, Krzysztof.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Memory and Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 pages)

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16thand the 17thcenturies was the result of a cumulative impact of such factors as the weakness of cities, political dominance.

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Copyright information
• Preface
• Contents
• Part I On the Nature of the Developmental Differentiation of Central Europe
• 1 In Defense of the Theory of the Historical Process
• 1 Introduction
• 2 On the Schematization of the Theory of the Historical Process
• 3 On the Prognoses in the Theory of the Historical Process
• 4 On the Loss of Nostalgia for the Metanarrative
• 5 On the Teleology of Substantial Philosophy of History
• 6 On the Need for the Theory of the Historical Process
• 2 The Concept of Central Europe
• 1 Introduction
• 2 On the Criteria of Distinguishing Central Europe
• 3 On the Borders of Central Europe
• 4 On the Nature of the Distinctiveness of Central Europe
• 3 On the Distinctiveness of Central Europe
• 1 Theories Referring to External Factors
• 1.1 The Concept of Marian Ma ł owist
• 1.2 The Concept of Immanuel Wallerstein
• 2 Theories Referring to Internal Factors
• 2.1 The Concept of Robert Brenner
• 2.2 The Concept of Jerzy Topolski
• 2.3 The Concept of Benedykt Zientara
• 3 Combined Theories
• 3.1 The Concept of Daniel Chirot
• 3.2 The Concept of W ł adys ł aw Rusi ń ski
• 3.3 The Concept of Jeremy Blum
• 3.4 The Concept of Jan Rutkowski
• 4 A Recapitulation
• Part II Methodological Assumptions
• 4 The Method of Idealization in the Historical Sciences
• 1 Idealization in the Social Sciences: Case Studies
• 2 The Method of Idealization
• 3 The Idealizational Law and Its Concretization
• 4 Operationalization of the Idealizational Theory
• 5 On Some Extensions of the Idealizational Theory of Science
• 5.1 On Different Kinds of Counter-Factual Assumptions
• 5.2 On the Specification of Idealizational Statements
• 6 The Comparative Method and Idealization
• 7 The Method of Modeling in the Economic History
• 7.1 Classification of Economic Models.
• 7.2 Evsey Domar 's Theory of the Rise of Exacerbated Serfdom
• 7.3 Witold Kula 's Theory of the Feudal System in Poland
• 7.4 Jerzy Topolski 's Model of Economy of Greater Poland
• 7.5 Fr é d é ric Mauro 's Theory of Intercontinental Trade
• 7.6 A Recapitulation
• 8 The Limitations of the Method of Idealization
• 5 The Methodological Characterization of the Cascade Effect
• 1 Two Types of Essential Structures
• 2 On Small Causes and Huge Effects
• 3 The Interaction of Factors in the Cascade
• 4 The Cascade Effect and the Scientific Theory
• 5 The Cascade Effect and the Historical Narrative
• 6 The Cascade Effect in Light of Categorial Ontology
• 7 The Rationale of Idiographism in the History
• 8 The Cascade Effect and Economic Dualism in Modern Europe
• Part III Theoretical Assumptions
• 6 The Basic Ideas of Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
• 1 Presentation of Basic Ideas
• 1.1 A Typology of Societies
• 1.2 A Model of Evolution of a Purely Political Society
• 1.3 The Global Model of a Political Society
• 2 On the Class Divisions in the State of Teutonic Knights
• 2.1 Problem
• 2.2 The Social Structure of the Teutonic State
• 2.3 Evolution of a Teutonic Society
• 2.4 Conclusions
• 3 Alternative History and the Rise of Socialism in Russia
• 7 Ownership and Revolution in Non-Marxian Historical Materialism
• 1 On Some Basic Mechanisms of Social Development
• 1.1 Adaptive Mechanisms
• 1.2 The Mechanism of a Class Struggle
• 2 On Two Models of Economic Society
• 2.1 The Basic Model of Purely Economic Society
• 2.2 An Economic Model of Feudal Society
• 3 On Two Types of an Economic Revolutions
• 3.1 Non-rationalistic Model of a Man
• 3.2 Critique of the Reconstruction of a Christian Model of Man
• 3.3 A Non-rationalistic Model of Man in the Area of Economy.
• 3.4 Two Types of Revolutions in the Model of an Economic Society
• Part IV The Conceptualization of the Distinctiveness of Central Europe
• 8 Models of the Source of a Cascade
• 1 Model II: An Economic Society with a Surplus of Manpower
• 1.1 Assumptions of the Model
• 1.2 Social Resistance of the Unemployed
• 1.3 Social Resistance of the Employed
• 1.4 The Image of Social Resistance of Direct Producers
• 1.5 Development of an Economic Society with a Surplus of Manpower
• 2 Model III: An Economic Society with a Shortage of Manpower
• 2.1 Assumptions of the Model
• 2.2 The Shortage of Manpower versus the Social Resistance
• 2.3 Development of an Economic Society with a Shortage of Manpower
• 2.4 A Scope of the Historical Application of Models
• 9 The Genesis of European Differentiation
• 1. On the Peculiarities of Feudalism in Central Europe
• 2 The Emergence of a Cascade of European Differentiation
• 2.1 The Core of the Cascade of European Differentiation
• 2.2 The Polish Variant
• 2.3 The Hungarian Variant
• 2.4 The Bohemian Variant
• 3 Summary
• Conclusions
• Appendices
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index.