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From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant 1770–1840
Until late in the eighteenth century, the peasantry of the German states had been dismissed contemptuously by the aristocracy and middle classes as brutish and virtually subhuman. With the advent of organized movements for peasant emancipation and agrarian reform, however, many German writers and publicists began also to reassess the role of the peasant in society. Within less than a century, the public image of the German peasant had been completely changed. Where formerly he had been scorned as untermenschlich, by 1840 he was firmly established in the public mind as an embodiment of the highest national virtues—a patriotic citizen ...Read More
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Daniel O'Connell and the Repeal Year
Irish historians have minimized Daniel O’Connell’s role in the Irish liberty movement in favor of later nationalist leaders, largely because of his failure in the 1843 movement for repeal of the Act of Union. In this first detailed study of the final, crucial episode in O’Connell’s career, Lawrence J. McCaffrey reassesses his place in Ireland’s struggle for independence. The Repeal agitation is viewed as marking a watershed in the course of Irish nationalism.
The significance of this study, however, extends beyond the affairs of England and Ireland. It shows Daniel O’Connell to be among the first to develop the now ...Read More
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Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the French Revolution
In this second of two volumes, Carl B. Cone demonstrates once again that only through a study of Edmund Burke’s active political life can one understand his thought. To Burke’s important practical contributions to the art of government made prior to 1782 (Volume I, The Age of the American Revolution) must now be added the extension of his thought to new problems of empire and finally, in more theoretical directions, to the French Revolution, which Burke saw as the greatest crisis in the history of the Christian community.
Mr. Cone frankly acknowledges the flexibility of view Burke displayed while active ...Read More
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A Polish Factory: A Case Study of Workers' Participation in Decision Making
Industrial sociologists for many years have been limited almost entirely to studies of Western factories. For the Communist world they have been compelled to advance hypotheses based upon the assumption that political ideology determines the character of management-labor relations. Now for the first time, Mr. Kolaja’s pioneering examination of worker participation in the management of a textile factory in Lodz, Poland, provides specific evidence for testing these theories.
For eight weeks in the summer of 1957, while the liberal atmosphere of the “Polish October Revolution” of 1956 still prevailed, Mr. Kolaja observed the behavior of two work groups in the ...Read More
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Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe
Collectivization of agriculture is an essential feature of the Communist program for the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. It is a means of extending state control of agriculture as well as the basis for developing large-scale industrial and military power. Irwin T. Sanders has edited this excellent group of papers by specialists on Eastern Europe and American rural social scientists, which collectively serve as an analysis of efforts to regiment the East European peasant.
To those for whom the terms “collective farm” and “collectivization” have little meaning, this book will provide an actual picture of Communist effort to organize millions ...Read More
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Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the American Revolution
Edmund Burke in recent years has assumed extraordinary stature in American political thinking as the father of neoconservatism. In this book, the first of a two-volume biography of this eighteenth-century English statesman, Mr. Cone brings important new evidence to his thesis that during the age of the American Revolution Burke was significant more as the politician and the party man than as a systematic political philosopher.
This volume deals with Burke’s career to 1782, when the Marquis of Rockingham, to whom Burke had attached himself seventeen years earlier, stood once again on the threshold of the prime ministership. In this ...Read More
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Balkan Village
In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil. Dragalevtsy, the Balkan village described by Mr. Sanders, brings this struggle into focus. The book details the way of life of a tranquil rural folk clinging to a Bulgarian mountainside, in the shadow of a twelfth- century monastery—their history, economic system, marriage customs, family life, and reluctant yielding to the ways of the western world. On September 6, 1944, Dragalevtsy peasants awoke to find posters in the streets proclaiming ...Read More
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