Tony Waters

The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture

Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780739128367
• ISBN-10: 0739128361
• Artikelnr.: 23833219

Autorenporträt

By Tony Waters

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Persistence of Subsistence: Life Beneath the Level of the
Marketplace Chapter 2 Why Subsistence Peasants Are Important Chapter 3
Theoretical Overview: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace Chapter 4
Pre-industrial Scotland, or How Adam Smith Got Workers into His Pin Factory
Part 5 The Persistence of the Subsistence Peasant from the Eighteenth to
the Twenty-first Century Chapter 6 America's Triumphant Subsistence
Peasantry 1620-1820, or How Daniel Boone Ran from Ben Franklin's
Shopkeepers Chapter 7 Squatting, Pre-emption, and Nowhere Left to Run: An
Ascendant Market Catches Pa Ingalls Chapter 8 Modern Tanzania and the Long
Triumph of Subsistence Farmers Chapter 9 The Persistent Modern Tanzanian
Subsistent Peasant Part 10 Conclusions: Challenging Development Orthodoxies
Chapter 11 Theoretical Implications: Understanding Economic Growth as a
Risky and Recurrent Process Chapter 12 Modern Development and Subsistence
Peasantry