Growth and stagnation in European historical agriculture / edited by Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olsson, Mats, 1956-

Svensson, Patrick

COST Action A35 Progressore (Project)

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Rural history in Europe ; 6.

Rural history in Europe ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural productivity--Europe--History.

Agricultural productivity.

Agriculture--Europe--History.

Agriculture.

History.

Europe.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Europe--History.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2011]

Summary:

Changes in the agricultural production in various parts of Europe during various periods over the past few centuries are explored in 11 essays. Among the topics discussed are some aspects of the question of productivity in early medieval Europe with a case study of eastern Belgium, agricultural productivity in England 1700-1914, land and labor intensification in the agricultural modernization of southwest Germany 1760-1860, the limits of agricultural growth in a fragile eco-system: total factor productivity in Alentejo 1750-1850, and prices and productivity in inland Spain during the 19th century. The volume is not indexed. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Measuring and explaining agricultural growth / Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

Some aspects of the question of productivity in early medieval Europe : the case of Eastern Belgium / Alexis Wilkin

Agricultural productivity in England, 1700-1914 / John Beckett and Michael Turner

Agricultural productivity in the coastal and inland area of Friesland, 1700-1850 / Merjin Knibbe

Agricultural production in southern Sweden 1702-1864 / Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson

Land and labour intensification in the agricultural modernization of southwest Germany, 1760-1860 / Frank Konersmann

The limits of agricultural growth in a fragile eco-system : total factor productivity in Alentejo, 1750-1850 / Helder Adegar Fonseca and Jaime Reis

The modernization of agriculture under tough environmental constraints : one hundred years of Aragonese agricultural production, 1885-1985 / Vicente Pinilla and Ernesto Clar

Prices and productivity in inland Spain during the nineteenth-century : a "sleepwalking" agriculture? / José-Miguel Lana-Berasain

Agricultural productivity growth in Russia, 1861-1912 : from inertia to ferment / Carol S. Leonard

Italian agriculture 1861-1940 : a regional perspective / Giovanni Federico.

Notes:

Publication supported by COST Action A35 Progressore.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

2503540767

9782503540764

OCLC:

753634740

Publisher Number:

99949620049