Henryk Grossman
Biographical Note
Henryk Grossman (1881-1950) was the preeminent Marxist economist of the twentieth century. He was the founding theoretician and secretary of the Jewish Socialist Party of Galicia; a professor at the Free University of Poland; then, as a member of the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Frankfurt; and later at the University of Leipzig.
Rick Kuhn is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia. In addition to numerous other publications, he wrote the Deutscher Prize winning biography Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, co-authored Labor’s Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class and edited Class and Struggle in Australia.
Readership
Marxists, early modern historians, historians of religion
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rick Kuhn
1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria
2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists)
3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792
Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76
1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73
2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774
3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75
4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76
Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90
5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia
6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland
7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776
8 Supplementary Provisions
9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations
Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84
10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776
11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778
12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79
13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90
Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790
14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia
15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia
16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk
17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80
18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90
Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90
19 The Tariff Reform of 1784
20 The Extension of the Reform
Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90
21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste
22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia
Final Observations
Appendices
Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility
Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary
Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778
Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports
Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language
The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality
References
Index
