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https://doi.org/10.15176/vol51no201
Household Expenditure of the Braenović Family from Pelješac in the Late 19th Century: A Source for Interpreting their Daily Life
Jasenka Maslek
; Sveučilište u Dubrovniku
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The paper analyses the income and expenditure inventories of the Braenović family, landowners from Gruda near Potomje on the Pelješac Peninsula at the close of the nineteenth century, based on their family records which served as the main source for this research. After an introductory survey of the broader social conditions in which the family lived and worked, the paper focuses on the family's everyday life from 1894 to 1897, documented in detail by the expenditure records and the inventories of the purchased items by price. The available data provides an insight into the customs, clothing and family everyday life, but also into labourers' daily wages and their value with regard to the prices cited in the household expenditure. The records of the family wine trade and the income from the wine harvest and wine sales give a clear view of their financial status. On the basis of a detailed list of all expenditures over a period of several years in succession, a parallel is drawn between the income in 1896 and the expenditure in the following year, 1897. The results unquestionably show that the family under study were well-established landowners whose daily expenditures by far exceeded the current economic conditions and fell under luxury. Family records of the sale and prices of wine during the great wine conjuncture are a most valuable source for drawing comparison with the regional wine trade and a proof of varied development conditions of this economic activity and its reflection on the demographic sphere.
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Hrčak ID:
130708
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2014.
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