Das Argument des Rechts hat ausgedient

Abstract

The presented three volume publication on the fundamentals of the agricultural history (Grundzuge der Agrargeschichte) clearly indicates that today's researchers substantially disregard specific legal aspects of agrarian history. This aspect raises the basic issue for the author of the following article, whether legal influences alone are typicallyneglected in the agricultural history, or whether it is characteristic for the present Germanspeaking economic and social history as a whole. The author briefly looks back to answer this questionby presenting the newest research developments of the essential fields of the agricultural history, history of crafts and industrial history. He has come to conclude that there is a lack of an appropriate consideration of the current role of the law in the economic history of the last centuries, although there are some hints at a re-evaluation.