ABSTRACT
History teaches us that agricultural growth and development is necessary for achieving overall better living conditions in all societies. Although this process may seem homogenous when looked at from the outside, it is full of diversity within. This book captures this diversity by presenting eleven independent case studies ranging over time and space. By comparing outcomes, attempts are made to draw general conclusion and lessons about the agricultural transformation process.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
Agricultural transformation, land ownership, and markets in inland Spain
The case of southern Navarre, 1600–1935
chapter 2|35 pages
Are institutions the whole story?
Frontier expansion, land quality and ownership rights in the River Plate, 1850–1920
chapter 4|28 pages
Russian peasants and politicians
The political economy of local agricultural support in Nizhnii Novgorod province, 1864–1914
chapter 8|23 pages
Production and credits
A micro level analysis of the agrarian economy in Västra Karaby parish, Sweden, 1786–1846
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chapter 9|24 pages
Land concentration, institutional control and African agency
Growth and stagnation of European tobacco farming in Shire Highlands, c. 1900–1940
chapter 11|30 pages
Institutional models for accelerating agricultural commercialization
Evidence from post-independence Zambia, 1965–2012
chapter |16 pages
Reflections on the role of agriculture in the structural transformation
A macro–micro perspective
