On the Edge of Power: Peasants and Escape Ecologies in Eastern Europe, 1700-1850
We proudly announce that Dr. Michał Pospiszyl’s article “On the Edge of Power: Peasants and Escape Ecologies in Eastern Europe, 1700-1850” was published in The Journal of Modern History.
The article, prepared as a part of the NCN Sonata project, offers a new outlook on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the XVIII century.
The author shows how swamps, forests, and wasteland – the so-called “escape ecologies” – could have constituted as places of relative independence for peasants, deserters and religious dissidents as both shelter and a tool for negotiating one’s social standing.
Read here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/739699