Freedom's Price
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It is usually claimed that serfs were oppressed and unfree, but is this assumption true? Freedom''s Price, building on a new reading of archival material, attempts a fundamental re-appraisal of the continuing orthodoxy that a ''serf'' economy embodied peasant exploitation. It reveals that, in fact, Prussian ''subject'' peasants fared much better than their ''free'' neighbours; they had mutual righ...
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It is usually claimed that serfs were oppressed and unfree, but is this assumption true? Freedom''s Price, building on a new reading of archival material, attempts a fundamental re-appraisal of the continuing orthodoxy that a ''serf'' economy embodied peasant exploitation. It reveals that, in fact, Prussian ''subject'' peasants fared much better than their ''free'' neighbours; they had mutual righ...
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