Survival and entrepreneurship is the second book in the series of results of the project Integrated Peasant Economy in Slovenia in a Comparative Perspective, in which we focus only on the Slovene area in the longer term from the last centuries of the Middle Ages to this day. Its publication is the result of a long-term extensive project work with scientific literature, original archival resources and in an international environment, which included a large number of Slovene and foreign collaborators and associates whose results are visible in the form of contributions in this Slovenian book as well as in the previous English publication (Integrated Peasant Economy in a Comparative Perspective, Alps, Scandinavia and Beyond, Koper, University of Primorska, 2017)
COBISS.SI-ID: 293545216
In our quest to understand ordinary people’s lives we need tools to disentangle peasant economy. A basic effort has been to render agency to the peasant, to recognise that peasants were active actors in rural history. The main goal has been to develop and test a new conceptualisation of peasant economy. With the introduction of the concept “integrated peasant economy” (IPE), we have a tool that can enhance our understanding of how peasants who mixed different income sources organised their activity, and were able to manage a complex household economy. IPE enables a better comparability among regions and cases as well as through time. For these reasons this book is a step forward in our understanding of peasant economy. The volume presents a number of case studies concentrating on the Alps and Scandinavia, that reveal a remarkable comparative potential, but including also other areas of Slovenia, Italy and even Japan, proving that the integrated peasant economy is applicable to different regions and historical periods.
COBISS.SI-ID: 290253312