2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Empirical Research on Conflicts and Regulative Functions in the Rulal Society of Brandenburg in the First Half of the 19^<th> Century

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520620
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	Yamagata University
Principal Investigator	YAMAZAKI Akira Yamagata University, 人文学部, 教授 (30191258)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	ブランデンブルク / 紛争 / 農村社会
Research Abstract	This Research have solved the following questions considering the social conflicts, which occurred in Reckahn estate (Brandenburg) between the 18th and 19th Century. 1. The conflicts between lordships, who struggled in the 18th Century to expand their domains in marshlands with the purpose of getting wide grasslands. 2. The conflicts between the lordship of Reckahn and its peasants in the 18th and 19^<th> Century. They disputed how they could abolish the manorial system and make the peasants independent. 3. The conflicts between the lordship of Reckahn and its day laborers, who were acknowledged to build their cottages and hold a few domestic animals in the estate. The latter demanded to convert their rights of using common lands into the possesison of farmlands. This conflicts lasted until the middle of the 19th Century.

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