Vol. 12 (2015): Rural Commons. Collective Use of Resources in the European Agrarian Economy

Editors: Niels Grüne, Jonas Hübner and Gerhard Siegl

Editorial staff: Martin Bauer assisted by Gesine Gerhard, Leila Gray, Niels Grüne, Jonas Hübner, Ernst Langthaler, Ulrich Schwarz and Gerhard Siegl

Ländliche Gemeingüter sind Institutionen, in denen die Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen von sozialen Kollektiven organisiert wird. Seit den Agrarreformen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts durchliefen diese Institutionen unterschiedliche Entwicklungen, die von ihrer Auflösung bis zur Integration in (post-)industrielle Wirtschafts- und Verfassungsstrukturen reichen. Der vorliegende deutsch- und englischsprachige Band zieht anhand exemplarischer Fallanalysen und problemorientierter Resümees eine Zwischenbilanz der neueren Forschung. Der geographische Schwerpunkt liegt auf europäischen Regionen in vergleichender Perspektive, der zeitliche Rahmen erstreckt sich vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 21. Jahrhundert.

Rural commons are institutions organised around the collective use of natural resources. Since the agrarian reforms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these institutions have changed in a variety of ways: from their dissolution in some places to their integration into (post-)industrial economic and constitutional structures in others. The German and English articles in this volume provide case studies and present summaries of current research on rural commons. The contributions focus on European regions in comparative perspective and cover the period from the late Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

The volume was first published as a print-version in Studienverlag. Book design according to outlines by Kurt Höretzeder. Typesetting: Studienverlag/Da-TeX Gerd Blumenstein, Leipzig. Cover: Studienverlag/Karin Berner. Cover image: Blick von Froneben im Stubaital Richtung Patscherkofel, Tirol (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Postkartenbestand Telfes).

Link to the print-version: https://www.studienverlag.at/produkt/5471/laendliche-gemeingueter-rural-commons/

ISBN 978-3-7065-5471-8

Published: 2015-01-01

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Introduction

Preface Rural commons. Aims and key issues of the volume

Niels Grüne, Jonas Hübner, Gerhard Siegl

9–11
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Special Issue Articles

From privatisation to governed nature Old and new approaches to rural commons in Spain

José-Miguel Lana

12–26
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Co-operation and conflict Politics, institutions and the management of the English commons, 1500–1700

Jonathan Healey

27–43
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Rural commons in Mediterranean France from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries

Sylvain Olivier

44–53
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Traditions and recent trends of German research on the history of rural commons A survey

Stefan Brakensiek

54–67
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The commons in late medieval and early modern Poland An unattended historical phenomenon

Piotr Guzowski

68–77
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Common land in Bohemia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries A stocktaking and some new approaches in research

Eduard Maur

78–90
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Rural commons in eighteenth-century Hungary

Antal Szántay

91–102
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Commons and poor relief in pre-industrial societies A case study on northwest Spain (León), 1850–1950

José A. Serrano Álvarez

103–115
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Natural territories, cultural territories Tensions and conflicting challenges surrounding French high Alpine real estate since the nineteenth century

Anne Marie Granet-Abisset

116–127
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Agrarian communities and rural commons in South Tyrol Reflections on the field of tension between Austrian and Italian legislation

Evi Pechlaner

128–137
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Managing common land in unequal societies The case of the Lombard Alps in the eighteenth century

Luca Mocarelli

138–149
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Social inequality in an early modern rural resource regime The ‘Essener Mark’ in the region of Osnabrück

Jonas Hübner

150–162
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Conflicts over common land and territorial rule in the Franconian-Swabian territorium inclausum The struggle for sovereignty in the Dinkelsbühl region in the community of Aufkirchen-Gerolfingen

Teresa Massinger

163–174
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Survival without sanctioning The relationship between institutional resilience and methods of dealing with free-riding on early modern Dutch commons

Tine De Moor, Annelies Tukker

175–206
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Crises, commons and collective action The changing use of woodlands and mountains in seventeenth- century upland Scandinavia

Jesper Larsson

207–217
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Transformation processes in Alpine dairy farming during the late nineteenth century The introduction of hard cheese making on common mountain pastures of the ‘Unterland’ in Northern Tyrol

Christoph Pöll

218–231
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Common land and collective property in pre-Alpine and Alpine Switzerland Tensions regarding access to resources and their allocation (Middle Ages–twentieth century)

Anne-Lise Head-König

232–243
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Contrasting persistence of rural commons in Tyrol and the Baden Palatinate (eighteenth–twenty-first centuries)

Niels Grüne, Gerhard Siegl

244–257
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Of pastures and tourism A comparison of Tyrolean and Namibian commons institutions

Hein van Gils, Rohan Mark Bennett, Martin Hipondoka

258–273
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Conclusion

Institutions and practices of the collective use of resources in the European agrarian economy Comparative reflections and research perspectives

Niels Grüne, Jonas Hübner, Gerhard Siegl

274–296
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Obituary

Markus Cerman (1967–2015)

Josef Ehmer, Erich Landsteiner

297–298
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Vol. 12 (2015): Rural Commons. Collective Use of Resources in the European Agrarian Economy

Full Issue

Introduction

Preface Rural commons. Aims and key issues of the volume

Special Issue Articles

From privatisation to governed nature Old and new approaches to rural commons in Spain

Co-operation and conflict Politics, institutions and the management of the English commons, 1500–1700

Rural commons in Mediterranean France from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries

Traditions and recent trends of German research on the history of rural commons A survey

The commons in late medieval and early modern Poland An unattended historical phenomenon

Common land in Bohemia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries A stocktaking and some new approaches in research

Rural commons in eighteenth-century Hungary

Commons and poor relief in pre-industrial societies A case study on northwest Spain (León), 1850–1950

Natural territories, cultural territories Tensions and conflicting challenges surrounding French high Alpine real estate since the nineteenth century

Agrarian communities and rural commons in South Tyrol Reflections on the field of tension between Austrian and Italian legislation

Managing common land in unequal societies The case of the Lombard Alps in the eighteenth century

Social inequality in an early modern rural resource regime The ‘Essener Mark’ in the region of Osnabrück

Conflicts over common land and territorial rule in the Franconian-Swabian territorium inclausum The struggle for sovereignty in the Dinkelsbühl region in the community of Aufkirchen-Gerolfingen

Survival without sanctioning The relationship between institutional resilience and methods of dealing with free-riding on early modern Dutch commons

Crises, commons and collective action The changing use of woodlands and mountains in seventeenth- century upland Scandinavia

Transformation processes in Alpine dairy farming during the late nineteenth century The introduction of hard cheese making on common mountain pastures of the ‘Unterland’ in Northern Tyrol

Common land and collective property in pre-Alpine and Alpine Switzerland Tensions regarding access to resources and their allocation (Middle Ages–twentieth century)

Contrasting persistence of rural commons in Tyrol and the Baden Palatinate (eighteenth–twenty-first centuries)

Of pastures and tourism A comparison of Tyrolean and Namibian commons institutions

Conclusion

Institutions and practices of the collective use of resources in the European agrarian economy Comparative reflections and research perspectives

Obituary

Markus Cerman (1967–2015)

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