Agrarian Change and Economic Development: The Historical Problems

by Jones,E.L.; Jones,E.L.

• ISBN13: 9780415376969
• ISBN10: 0415376963
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Agrarian Change and Economic Developmentis a landmark volume that examines the historical experience of the relationship between agrarian change and economic development. Because agriculture was until recently man's dominant occupation, scholars have traditionally drawn little attention to its immense historical importance. The essays in this book redress this balance, and illustrate the significance of the western world's escape from an overwhelmingly agrarian condition. It is therefore an ideal work for encouraging those concerned with current problems to perceive agricultural development as professional historians see it, and to question the oversimplified historical analogies commonly employed in development economics. Presenting historical examples of change within particular agricultural systems, and discussing their implications for national economic development, both social scientists and planners less concerned with historical revision will have equal reason to welcome these casestudies of the long-run interaction of agrarian change and economic activity. This classic book was first published in 1969.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: The historical role of agrarian change in economic development	p. 1
The historical relationship between agricultural and economic development in Italy	p. 23
Landownership and economic growth in England in the eighteenth century	p. 41
Labour supply and demand in European agriculture 1800-1880	p. 61
Plates
Diagramatic representation of hand-reaping (1844)
Bagging with the broad hook and stick
Mowing with the Flemish scythe and 'pik'
Diagramatic representation of the mowing operation (1845)
Agricultural improvement in Japan 1870-1900	p. 95
Agriculture and economic development in Africa: Theory and experience 1880-1914	p. 123
Mathematical Appendix	p. 147
Mexican Agrarian Reform 1910-1960	p. 151
Index	p. 169
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