The Distribution of Incomes in a Feudal System: Monograph (Polish Historical Library)

Scarce paperback, 185 pages, NOT ex-library. Torn upper spine. Corner creases and folds, shelfworn covers. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, untanned, free of inscriptions and stamps. -- Contents: Jerzy Topolski, Foreword: Jan Rutkowski's Place in the Development of Historical Sciences; Introduction (1. Presentation of the Problem; 2. Previous Elaborations; 3. Sources); Theoretical Considerations on the Distribution of Incomes in a Feudal System (1. Preliminary Comments; 2. The Rent System; 3. The Corvée System; 4. Hired Labour in a Feudal System; 5. Exchange and Credit Relations between Farms Belonging to One Estate; 6. Complications Caused by the Existence of External Economic Relations; 7. Incomes of the Lord of the Manor); Statistics of the Lords' Incomes (1. 1st Audit of Crown Properties as a Source for Statistics of Incomes of the Latifundia; 2. Latifundia Incomes Other than from Manorial Farms; 3. Gross Income from a Manorial Farm; 4. Net Incomes from Manorial Farm Production; 5. Conclusions) --- Jan Rutkowski (1886-1949) - one of Poland's most outstanding historians, was, together with F. Bujak, the originator of Polish social-economic history as a separate discipline. He surpassed his contemporaries by uniting theoretical reflections with empirical studies, extending, in particular, knowledge of the functioning of feudal economy in Poland and other European countries. A specific place among the wealth of his achievements is occupied by his work "Badania nad podzialem dochodow w Polsce w czasach nowozytnych (Studies on the Distribution of Incomes in Poland in Modern Times)", Vol. I, Krakow 1938. His "Historia gospodarcza Polski (The Economic History of Poland)", translated into French, is known to a wide group of readers.…