Social Change in a Peripheral Society: The Creation of a Balkan Colony focuses on the nature of social change in peripheral societies, societies on the margins of the capitalist European world that have been absorbed by the dynamic industrial economies and turned into "colonial¿ or "neocolonial¿ societies.This book emphasizes the theory of an interdependent world-system dominated by core societies that subject, by direct or indirect means, peripheral societies. Studies on several peripheral societies, primarily those in the contemporary "third world¿, that are in the former colonies of Europe in Latin America, Asia, and Africa are also described.This text likewise explains the tremendous vitality of European capitalism by deliberating the difference between Ottoman and capitalist exploitation of Romania.This publication is beneficial to historians, economists, and anthropologists interested in the social change in peripheral society.

PrefaceList of TablesNotes on the Use of Romanian Terms and Letters1 Introduction: A Method for Studying Social Change2 Wallachia The Geography of Wallachia3 The Dual Nature of the Communal-Trading Political Economy (1250-1500) The Early Communal-Trade Wallachian Political Economy Evidence About the Early Communal Villages The Nobles The State The Role of Commerce4 The Collapse of the Communal-Trading Political Economy and the Rise of the Seignorial State (1500-1600) The New System of Taxation The Growth of the Nobles' Power Serfdom The Fall of Communal-Trading Political Economies5 The Protocolonial Political Economy (1600-1821) Taxes and the Ottoman Tribute Trade Serfs and Free Villagers Oltenia 1718-1739: A Premature Experiment in Modern Colonialism The Reform of 1746 and Rural Society until 1821 The State, the Nobles, and the Monasteries6 The Transition to Modern Colonialism (1821-1864) The International Context The Organic Regulation and Russian Rule Rural Society Under the Organic Regulation The Nobles and the Monasteries The Towns The Revolution of 1848 The Union of Wallachia and Moldavia and the Reform of 18647 The Developed Colonial Political Economy and the Agrarian Crisis (1864-1917) The Open Economy The Effects of the Reform of 1864 The Overthrow of Cuza and Kogalniceanu Agrarian Relations after 1866: Neoserfdom Population Changes Rural Society and Economy in 1900 A New Bourgeoisie? Agricultural Innovations The Revolt of 1907 Reform Legislature after 1907 World War I and Its Aftermath8 Social Change in Peripheral SocietiesReferences 1. General Works 2. Works on RomaniaIndex