Article ID: CBB921327007

The Introduction of the Potato in Eastern Europe: State or Peasant Initiative? (2021)

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The article takes the beginnings of potato cultivation and consumption in Eastern Europe as a case study in Enlightenment socioeconomic history. Reading narrative and economic sources from the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the broader regional and European context, it retraces a trajectory whereby the tubers spread bottom-up via foreign immigrants to local peasantry and thereafter to nobility. That the new beneficial crop proliferated in Poland-Lithuania without state or elite official promotion, while Austrian authorities only partly succeeded in introducing potatoes in Habsburg eastern provinces, demonstrates that state-led modernization could only be effective in coincidence with local needs.

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Authors & Contributors
Bivar, Venus
Wang, Kai
Lidwell-Durnin, John
Jones, Peter M
Berger, Thor
Biasillo, Roberta
Concepts
Agriculture
Potatoes
Modernization
Science and society
Social class
Rural history
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Enlightenment
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Eastern Europe
France
China
Southern Europe
Libya
Barbados
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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