The Peasant's Spaces. Changing Perception of Space in 19th-20th Century Hungary

Peasant chronicles from the early 19th century are quite rare, and a corpus written over several generations is almost unique in Hungary. The records of the Gyüker family of Külsőbőcs (today Bőcs, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county), written over four generations with varying intensity, cover the period between 1787 and 1944, a century and a half. With the help of this source material, I am trying to answer the question of how the transformation of the world and the way of seeing the world began in the villages, especially among the peasants. How did they show signs of globalization? How did different generations, in their memories and then in their contemporary records, see their own immediate and wider environment? How did they see events and changes in the country and the world from this perspective? I will also compare the records with peasant, pastoral and educational sources from other regions to see how generalizable the main changes observed in the Gyöker family are.