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The Agrarian Question II - Great Landholdings and the Case of the Tsiflikia in Thessaly, 1881-1923
Authors: Patronis, Vasileios
Reviewer: Zervogianni, Athina
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > ECONOMIC HISTORY
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Abstract:
As analyzed in this chapter, the hasty transfer of large tracts of land to large Greek stockbrokers and merchants of the diaspora on the eve of the annexation of Thessaly (1881) had dramatic consequences for the cultivators, who gradually turned into simple tenant farmers. The "deplorable inaction" of the Trikoupi government, which completely changed the fixed agricultural policy of the Greek state in order to protect the large land ownership of the farms, is also recorded, and led to the conflict between farmers and small farmers, which shook the social life of the country in the period 1881- 1923. Finally, the evolution and gradual maturation of the agricultural movement is described, which, from a simple agricultural protest and resistance against evictions in the 1880s, turns into a panthessal movement with a broad social base and with a central demand for the distribution of land to its cultivators on the eve of 1910.
Technical Editors: Foteinopoulos, Michalis Anastasios
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/1704
Bibliographic Reference: Patronis, V. (2015). The Agrarian Question II - Great Landholdings and the Case of the Tsiflikia in Thessaly, 1881-1923 [Chapter]. In Patronis, V. 2015. Greek Economic History [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/1704
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Greek Economic History
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions