Three-quarters of the population of Russia) form a class apart, 4 largely excepted from the incidence of the ordinary law, and governed in accordance with their local customs. The mir itself, with its customs, is of immemorial antiquity (see Village Communities); it was not, however, till the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 that the village community was withdrawn from the patrimonial jurisdiction of the landowning nobility and endowed with self-government. [Please select]
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Under the Chinese economic system, large-scale landowning always proved socially and politically injurious. [Please select]
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Large-scale landowning proved especially injurious in the Sung period, for two reasons. [Please select]
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--It is interesting that the rise of landowning temples in India occurred at exactly the same time (R.) [Please select]
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The Virginia planters were a landowning gentry; when Washington died he had more than sixty thousand acres. [Please select]
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German opinion on the Civil War was divided; Liberal Germany sympathized strongly with the North; while the aristocratic and the landowning class stood for the South. [Please select]
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A united front was therefore formed between all Chinese, both peasants and landowning gentry, against the Chin, such as it had not been possible to form against the Kitan. [Please select]
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