Reactions to the Intrusion of the Modernising State into the Rural Space. On the Croation Peasant Movements of 1883 from a Different Perspective Cover Image

Válaszok a modernizáló állam behatolására a vidéki térbe. Az 1883-as horvátországi parasztmozgalmakról másképp
Reactions to the Intrusion of the Modernising State into the Rural Space. On the Croation Peasant Movements of 1883 from a Different Perspective

Author(s): Veronika Eszik
Subject(s): 19th Century
Published by: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet
Keywords: rural history; peasant movements; antimodernism; opposition of province and city; Kingdom of Croatia–Slavonia; anti-Hungarian movements

Summary/Abstract: In the period of the Austro–Hungarian dual monarchy (1867-1914) the agrarian population of banal Croatia reacted to their changing living conditions with revolts and riots roughly once in a decade. The abundant historiographical coverage has identified two basic causes in the background of these tensions: some of a social nature such as the years of low yields and the increase of peasant duties, and some stemming from the growing national consciousness of the peasantry and the emotions thereby stirred up. Alongside these causes, the present paper intends to include a third source of conflict that has rarely been analysed so far: namely the modernising intervention of the state, whose presence, with a force that had not been experienced previously, resulted in a profound subversion of the rural world.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 521-543
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Hungarian
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