Imperial Borderlands - Couverture souple

Popescu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009365185 ISBN 13 : 9781009365185

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic and social development? This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire's southern border against the threat of the Ottoman Empire and which lasted until the 1880s. The book outlines the conditions under which this extractive institution affected development, showing how locals were forced to work as soldiers and exposed to rigid communal property rights, an inflexible labor market, and discrimination when it came to the provision of public infrastructure. While the formal institutions set up during the military colony disappeared, their legacy can be traced in political attitudes and social norms even today with the violence and abuses exercised by the imperial government transformed into distrust in public authorities, limited political involvement, and low social capital.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Bogdan G. Popescu is an Assistant Professor at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, held postdoctoral positions at Princeton and Bocconi University, and taught at the University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009365185
• ISBN 13: 9781009365185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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