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# {3-4.} 1. OLD AND NEW IN THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE OF TRANSYLVANIA

Contents

- A Growing Population in the Grip of Underdeveloped Agriculture
- A Peasant Society Awaiting Change
- The Landed Nobility: Innovation and Conservatism
- Urbanization and the Town–Village Nexus
- Markets and Merchants
- Change and Tensions in Industry and Mining
- Cultural Conditions and Their Social Basis (Literacy, Schools, and the Intelligentsia)