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peasant income integration in early modern slovenia: a historiographical review
an economy in which peasant populations and households made
their living by combining agriculture and market-oriented activ-
ities. Even agricultural activities may have been (at least part-
ly) market oriented. The second characteristic is that agriculture
was not necessarily its basis; nor were the market-oriented activi-
ties simply supplementary […]. Of no lesser importance is the third
characteristic distinguishing “integrated peasant economy,” i.e. the
fact that it integrated activities and livelihoods from all three eco-
nomic sectors together, namely the primary, secondary and tertiary
[…]. In sum, something that is perhaps more of a consequence than
a characteristic, but nevertheless constitutes a distinctive feature
of “integrated peasant economy:” it enabled rural societies to over-
come natural and technical limits, and significantly raise the carry-
ing-capacity of the environment they lived in, since it allowed sus-
taining a population beyond the level that would have been possible
based on (agricultural) land alone (Panjek 2015a, 203).
HUNGARY
CARINTHIA
STYRIA
REP. OF UPPER CARNIOLA
VENICE
Soča valley Železniki
Tolmin
!
Čedad/Cividale !
Škofja loka
!
! Ljubljana
Idrija !
Gorica/Gorizia ! Carniola
! INNER CARNIOLA Chamber
Vipava valley
LOWER CARNIOLA County of Gorizia
Karst Postojna Ribnica
! Lož Trieste
! 0 40 80 km
! Map author: Nataša Kolega
Source: GURS, DTM 12.5
Trst/Trieste Kočevje
!
!
Piran ! Koper
!!
Izola
REP. OF VENICE Reka/Rijeka CROATIA
Istria
!
Map 2.2: Regions, provinces and areas of Early Modern western Slovenia
61
an economy in which peasant populations and households made
their living by combining agriculture and market-oriented activ-
ities. Even agricultural activities may have been (at least part-
ly) market oriented. The second characteristic is that agriculture
was not necessarily its basis; nor were the market-oriented activi-
ties simply supplementary […]. Of no lesser importance is the third
characteristic distinguishing “integrated peasant economy,” i.e. the
fact that it integrated activities and livelihoods from all three eco-
nomic sectors together, namely the primary, secondary and tertiary
[…]. In sum, something that is perhaps more of a consequence than
a characteristic, but nevertheless constitutes a distinctive feature
of “integrated peasant economy:” it enabled rural societies to over-
come natural and technical limits, and significantly raise the carry-
ing-capacity of the environment they lived in, since it allowed sus-
taining a population beyond the level that would have been possible
based on (agricultural) land alone (Panjek 2015a, 203).
HUNGARY
CARINTHIA
STYRIA
REP. OF UPPER CARNIOLA
VENICE
Soča valley Železniki
Tolmin
!
Čedad/Cividale !
Škofja loka
!
! Ljubljana
Idrija !
Gorica/Gorizia ! Carniola
! INNER CARNIOLA Chamber
Vipava valley
LOWER CARNIOLA County of Gorizia
Karst Postojna Ribnica
! Lož Trieste
! 0 40 80 km
! Map author: Nataša Kolega
Source: GURS, DTM 12.5
Trst/Trieste Kočevje
!
!
Piran ! Koper
!!
Izola
REP. OF VENICE Reka/Rijeka CROATIA
Istria
!
Map 2.2: Regions, provinces and areas of Early Modern western Slovenia
61
