Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hillbom, Ellen; Svensson, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses a global history approach in order to reach a greater understanding of the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparisons over time and space. The book seeks to identify key factors for agricultural transformation, through the use of micro level case studies, and to assess their importance in a global perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136676802
• Artikelnr.: 38270770

Autorenporträt

Ellen Hillbom is Lecturer in the Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden Patrick Svensson is Lecturer in the Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ellen Hillbom and Patrick Svensson 1. Agricultural Transformation
Land Ownership
and Markets in Inland Spain: The Case of Southern Navarre
1600-1935 José-Miguel Lana Berasain 2. Are Institutions the Whole Story? Frontier Expansion
Land Quality and Ownership Rights in the River Plate
1850-1920 Henry Willebald 3. State-led Agricultural Development and Change in Yogyakarta
1973-1996 Tobias Axelsson 4. Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province
1864-1914 Steven Nafziger 5. Slaves as Capital Investment in the Dutch Cape Colony
1652-1795 Johan Fourie 6. Land Inequality and Agrarian per Capita Incomes in Guadalajara
Spain
1690-1800 Carlos Santiago-Caballero 7. Smallholders' Access to Financial Institutions in Meru
Tanzania
1995-2011 Ellen Hillbom 8. Production and Credits: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Agrarian Economy in Västra Karaby Parish
Sweden
1786-1846 Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson 9. Land Concentration
Institutional Control and African Agency. Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands
c. 1900-1940 Erik Green 10. Peasants Households' Access to Land and Income Diversification
the Peruvian-Andean Case 1998-2000 Jackeline Velazco and Vicente Pinilla 11. Institutional Models for Accelerating Agricultural Commercialization: Evidence from Maize
Cotton and Horticulture in Zambia
1965-2012 Antony Chapoto
Steven Haggblade
Munguzwe Hichaambwa
Stephen Kabwe
Steven Longabaugh
Nicholas J. Sitko and David Tschirley 12. Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in the Structural Transformation: A Macro-Micro Perspective C. Peter Timmer