The failure of agrarian capitalism : agrarian politics in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA, 1846-1919 / Niek Koning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koning, Niek, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--Europe--History--19th century.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture and state--United States--History--19th century.

Agriculture and state--Europe--History--20th century.

Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Agriculture is a highly sensitive industry. Throughout their history, national governments have intervened in and protected their agricultural sectors. The problems of competition in agriculture have been continually illustrated by disagreement over the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, more recently, by attempts to reform farming policy in the last round of the GATT negotiations. The Failure of Agrarian Capitalismpresents a comparative analysis of in agarian policies in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA from 1846-1919.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Plan and method of the study; AGRARIAN CAPITALISM: GROWTH AND MISCARRIAGE; Growth of agrarian capitalism; Changes in the age of the second Industrial Revolution; Decline of large farms; Effects on the demand for farm policies; Agrarian politics and the general political evolution; MID-1840's TO c. 1873: THE LIBERAL YEARS; Farm structures and technical progress; Liberalizing tendency in farm policies; Wealth-controlling rural classes and the liberalization of agricultural trade

Institutional bases of farm progress Few reasons for indulgence with small farmers and farm labourers; Agrarian capitalism and the rise of classical liberalism; c. 1873 TO LATE 1890's: THE WATERSHED; Repercussions on farm output and productivity; Set-back for large farms; Government intervention along diverging paths; United States, the Netherlands and the blessings of comparative advantage; United Kingdom, Germany and the determinants of free trade or protection; Bourgeois fears, defence of ground rents, and the turn to land reform; Agricultural crisis and the decline of liberalism

LATE 1890's TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AGRICULTURE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCE Evolution of farm structures; Farm output and productivity; Government and the beginnings of agricultural Taylorism; Increase in land reform; Delay in social policies for farm labourers; Agricultural trade policies: the United States and the Netherlands; Tariff question in the United Kingdom and Germany: the struggle over national destiny; Ambiguities of agrarian corporatism; Swan song of the Old Regime; THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND BEYOND; Agriculture and food supply during the war; After-effects; DISCUSSION

Neo-classical economics and the landlord-blame view Landlord political power: need for reconsidering?; APPENDIX: Statistical data on agricultural development in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1850 1913; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-277) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-82288-X

1-134-82289-8

1-280-33101-1

0-203-29593-5

0-203-03124-5

9780203031247

OCLC:

70763248