Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900

Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe. Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Henry French is Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter. He has published on rural society in England, as well as the landed elite, and the use of urban common lands in England. Christine Fertig is Assistant Professor at the University of Muenster, Germany. She has published on rural history, history of the family, credit markets, global trade and exotic substances in early modern Europe. Henry French is Professor of Social History at the University of Exeter. He has published on rural society in England, as well as the landed elite, and the use of urban common lands in England. Richard Paping is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at the University of Groningen. His research spans historical demography, family history, social mobility, labour history, and economic development, with a particular focus on the norther part of the Netherlands during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century.

• Introduction - Christine Fertig, Richard Paping & Henry French1. The treballadors of Girona: evidence of the emergence of wage labour in early modern Catalonia (16th and 17th centuries)- Arnau Barquer i Cerdà2. The squatter economy of the English countryside - building new landless communities in England c. 1600-1900 - John Broad3. The rise of landless households in the Dutch countryside c. 1600-1900- Richard Paping4. 'Gaining ground' in Flanders after the 1840s: access to land and the coping mechanisms of landless and semi-landless households, c. 1850-1900- Wouter Ronsijn5. Strategies of survival, landlessness, and forest settlement in Flanders: the Forest of Houthulst in a changing landscape of survival (c. 1500-1900) - † Dieter Bruneel6. Landless and pauper households in England c. 1760-1835: A comparison of two southern English rural communities- Henry French7. Landless rural households in France 1852-1910- Nadine Vivier8. Survival in a hostile agrarian regime: non-landed households in seventeenth-century Sweden and Finland - Riikka Miettinen & Jonas Lindström9. Farming craftsmen? Access to land and the socio-economic position of rural artisans in early modern Finland- Merja Uotila10. Landlessness and marriage restrictions: Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- Margareth Lanzinger11. Cottages, barns and bake houses: Landless rural households in North-western Germany in the eighteenth century - Christine Fertig