Historical Geography of Rural House Types and Premises of Social and Economic History. Moldova, Muntenia and Oltenia, Late 18th Century – Early 20th Century
Historical Geography of Rural House Types and Premises of Social and Economic History. Moldova, Muntenia and Oltenia, Late 18th Century – Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: House characteristics could provide interesting talking points regarding wider social and economic evolutions, if put in a framework that includes statistical representativity and spatial reconstruction. We engaged in a study that would enlarge the existing framework (greatly based on results from the 1912 census), by approaching unused sources or by better analyzing sources that have already been published in non-digital form. This paper aims to present the results of historical reconstruction and to discuss their possible implications in other related subjects. Even though the complexity of the matter permitted little other than hypotheses, these were enough to formulate research questions regarding aspects like mobility, government reform, the effects of war on habitat, and the relation between house, household and wealth.

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