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.

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Preface
List of Tables
Notes on the Use of Romanian Terms and Letters
1 Introduction: A Method for Studying Social Change
2 Wallachia
The Geography of Wallachia
3 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 Commerce
4 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 Economies
5 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 Monasteries
6 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 1864
7 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 Aftermath
8 Social Change in Peripheral Societies
References