The World Of The Belgian Peasantry From 1830 To 1870: Within the framework of the international investigation into the peasant movements made in view of the History Congress of Moscow, the Belgian group tried to find out what the situation was in the peasant world in Belgium during the XlXth century, since it proved impossible to indicate authentic social movements here.

Cultivation-Plan, Production And Production-Costs Agriculture In A Few Municipalities Of The Provinces Of Antwerp And East-Flanders (Early 19th Century): Since the middle of the 19th century censuses of the cultivated area, the crop-quantities and the yield-factors obtained have no more been exceptional. This information, which is undoubtedly important, should, however, be approached with some distrust, as the data were gathered by inexpert people in a rather shady period (years of occupation) and from a refractory population. The unsystematically gathered information, i.e.

Social And Political Reactions Of The Bruges Popular Mass At The End Of The Ancien Regime (1770-1794): Generally speaking the conditions of life of the lower social classes at Bruges were the same as in all other West European cities. The popular mass had to contend with continuous price increases whereas wages remained stationary or even decreased. Without support the Bruges working-class families could not possibly make both ends meet. A t Bruges, this support was remarkably well organized, but eventually proved insufficient.

Machine-Workers From Liege And Namur In The Borinage Late Xviiith Early Xlxth Centuries. Contribution To Industrial & Social History: The first steam-engines of the continent (Newcomen type) were sent from. England as a number of component parts and assembled on the spot. Although historians have attributed engines of this kind in the Borinage to engineers from Liège or Namur, no proof of this has been forthcoming in order to verify the origin of several such engineers and their social background. Three families appear in this study.