FF:HIB052n The History of Land - Course Information

HIB052n The History of Land

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Martin Markel, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Martin Markel, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts

Prerequisites

Economic and Social History

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The subject acquaints students with the development of agriculture in the Modern Period in that it concentrates attention on the transformation of the production relations in the transition from feudalism to capitalist management and the influence of capitalistic imperatives on agriculture and the reaction to them. The crucial question is the contradictory concept of the land as a social category or tradable goods. So, the main topic is the concentration of land and land reforms.

Learning outcomes

The Student will be able to:
- orientate in the issues of development in new-era agriculture in the european context,
- to recognize the ideological background of different approaches to ownership of land and political positions to the concentration of the soil,
- know the difference between a feudal and a capitalist economy,
- perceive the specific environmental status of the land in the economy.

Syllabus

• Landl: natural nature, human culture, economic factor.
• The concept of land in feudal and capitalist economics (the so-called Hausväterliteratur /paterfamilias literature/ and the so-called improvement literature).
• The character of holdings and ownership. An excursion to the ancient land reforms and the feudal concept of holdings.
• The Enlightenment reforms and the land, physiocrats. The process of the liberation of the peasantry in the 19th century.
• The land in socialist concepts.
• The economic development of the 19th and 20th centuries, the boom of the forces of production in agriculture, the technological revolution.
• Land reform between the wars and after the Second World War.

Literature

required literature
• BERANOVÁ, Magdalena and Antonín KUBAČÁK. Dějiny zemědělství v Čechách a na Moravě. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2010, 430 s. ISBN 9788072771134. info
• KUKLÍK, Jan. Znárodněné Československo : od znárodnění k privatizaci - státní zásahy do vlastnických a dalších majetkových práv v Československu a jinde v Evropě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Auditorium, 2010, 444 s. ISBN 9788087284124. info
• Die Bauern in der europäischen Geschichte. Edited by Werner Rösener. München: C.H. Beck, 1993, 296 s. ISBN 3406376525. info

recommended literature
• PIKETTY, Thomas. Kapitál v 21. století. Translated by Jana Chartier. Vydání první. Praha: Knižní klub, 2015, 663 stran. ISBN 9788024248707. info
• WOOD, Ellen Meiksins. Původ kapitalismu : delší pohled. Translated by Rudolf Převrátil. [Praha]: Svoboda Servis, 2011, 177 s. ISBN 9788086320700. info
• PETRÁŇ, Josef and Lydia PETRÁŇOVÁ. Rolník v evropské tradiční kultuře. 1. vyd. Praha: SET OUT, 2000, 215 s. ISBN 80-86277-08-9. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, class discussion

Assessment methods

Processing seminar work, guided discussion

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught: every week.

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