Svetla Atanasova,
Professor, PhD
Regional museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo
38, Ivan Vazov St.
5000 Veliko Tarnovo BULGARIA
E-mail: svetla_atanasova1969@abv.bg
SCOPUS ID: 57415720400
Web of Science Researcher ID AAT-3480-2021
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8890-2516
https://doi.org/10.53656/978-619-7667-81-3-v2.06
Съдържанието е достъпно само за абонирани потребители.
Pages: 231 – 286
Abstract. Present study reviews the new capitalistic tendencies which started to penetrate into the urban economics in the 19th century. The industrial specification of the Bulgarian territories based on the crafts, as well as the separation of the agriculture from the city’s profile and culture and the various home industries and manufactures were all tendencies borrowed from the Western-European countries. When these western practices were put in the Bulgarian context they acquired their own specifics and features, completing the big imperial market with substantial European presence. The spread of various types of industries stimulates the domestic trade between the regions.
The first paragraph of the study is dedicated to the research of the scientific achievements of Bulgarian historiography and the publicized source material on the topic.
For the presentation of the urban economics in the 19th century both comparative and analytical approaches were used. The areas on the north and south of the Balkan range are conditionally separated and the examples are giving an idea on the economic development or decline of the settlements. We have researched a number of documents like guild’s chronicles, constituting contracts, and a correspondence between the main participants in the trade thus contributing to the author’s thesis about the development of the craftsmanship, the professional guilds and proto-industries. The study also pays attention to the failed industrialization of the Bulgarian lands in the 60-s and 70-s of the 19th century.
Keywords: urban economics; Bulgarian lands; crafts; manufactures; proto-industry; trade; trading companies; industrial production
