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Merchant enterprise and the development of the plum-based trades in Serbia, 1847-1911article 1977 • Palairet, Michael
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
The discussion in this article centers around the development of trade in the produce of the plum orchards of Serbia -- primarily plums, dried prunes and RAKIJA SLJIVOVICA (a mild alcoholic beverage). During the nineteenth century Serbia was one of t...Fiscal pressure and peasant impoverishment in Serbia before World War Iarticle 1979 • Palairet, Michael
Serbs • Europe > Southeastern Europe
According to Palairet, the expansion of government in Eastern Europe during the half century prior to World War I was financed by steady increases in fiscal pressure on the peasantry through taxation. A quantitative analysis by the author of the situ...