Bencsik János: Kapitalizálódó gazdaság, polgárosodó társadalom (Officina Musei 13. Miskolc, 2003)

THE COMMUNITY OF TOKAJ (1869)

CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 5 - Something about our sources (census of 1869) 5 - The weeks of the Russian occupation 7 - The months after the downfall 12 - A chapter about absolutism and its functioning amid the new middle-class 13 - The steps of the early absolutistic system 14 II. LIFE ST ARTS 17 a) Administration 17 -Representative-body 17 - Recruitment 21 b) The new economic system 23 - Licensed pubs 23 -Weighing of meat 24 c) Tax, tax return, back taxes 25 d) Surveying of the land registers 26 e) The control of the Tisza bed and the anti-inundation work of the river region 28 t) The railway reaches the town 30 g) The founding of the Tokaj-Hegyalja Savings Bank 35 III. THE EXECUTION OF THE SERFS LIBERATION 42 a) Vineyards and wine culture 42 b) Grape tithe 52 -The grape tithe redemption (1858) 56 c) Peasant economy 59 - The birth of the arable lands 59 - Traditional animal keeping 64 - Carters 67 d) The sale of wine, the Hegyalja Wine Trade Association 72 IV. THE TOWNS COMMUNITY COMPOSITION: GROUPS, STRATA, CLASSES 77 a) The town and its boundary 77 - The built environment 77 - The street and road network of the town 78 b) Configuration = construction of the community 82 c) Choice of economic and religious peers, background 84 - The history and complexity of the community 85 - The well-to-do peasant community of Hegyalja 90 - Contribution to the mentality and consciousness of the well-to-do peasants 93 - The town's ambition in strengthening its centre role 95 - The census of 1869 in Tokaj and its conclusions 98 d) The intellectual professions and their services 104 - The use of written records in Tokaj (historico-cultural contributions) 113