ABSTRACT
This chapter maps out the various junctures of the process of commodification in the area of the Kingdom of Hungary. The narrative here will rely on the classic analyses presenting the actors and the infrastructure in the flow of materials and a critical take on nineteenth-century private property within the legal framework of the state. There is also an emphasis on the ground-level activities of foresters as representatives of the state and on communities that had to address, confront, and adapt to changing notions about appropriate interactions between states, lands, and landowners, as well as to the introduction of state legislation reflecting these changing notions.
