The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 30 (1) , 18-32
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700078566
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present, or more correctly, to revive, a hypothesis regarding the causes of agricultural serfdom or slavery (used here interchangeably). The hypothesis was suggested by Kliuchevsky's description of the Russian experience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it aims at a wider applicability.Keywords
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- The Rise of Serfdom in Eastern EuropeThe American Historical Review, 1957