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First published in 1991, The Noble, the Serf and the Revizor is a
historical and sociological study of the Polish nobility of the
Western Ukraine between the two great uprisings that shook Poland
in the 19th century is based almost entirely on original,
unpublished documents. Daniel Beauvois throws an entirely new light
on the Polish nobility of the Ukraine, on its development and
particular mentality. Furthermore, his research reveals mechanisms
of domination and assimilation, which the Czarist bureaucracy can
be said to have pioneered long before the Soviet empire. During
this period, the Russian revizor, a key figure in the social drama
described in these pages, ruthlessly lowered the status of the
majority of the Polish nobles in the Ukraine. Thereafter, their
fate was defined by two basic realities: poverty and the decline of
their national identity and social status. Only a small minority of
rich landowners survived. The price they paid was total political
subservience, a subservience which gave rise to an increasingly
conservative mentality and the loss of all real contact with the
Polish national movement. This book will be of interest to students
of history, political science, sociology and international
relations.
Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across
most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former
slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one.
Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments
were widespread in the nineteenth century-except the "victims" were
not slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This
landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation
within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented
detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at
play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the
aftermath of slavery in the Americas.
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