Chapter 1. Setting the stage: the genealogy of contemporary rural identity in the Midwest -- Chapter 2. Are we ready for this? Urban industrialism, rural resistance, and rural-urban conflict -- Chapter 3. The future of an idea: farmers use of technology to perform rural capitalistic modernity --...

This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and through annual rates of technical change. Evidence on...

Issues surrounding agriculture have always had pride of place among academic research in economic history. Interest in agricultural issues does not seem to come into fashion, and then fade into the background only to return years later. Indeed, agriculture was so vital to the workings of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Native American and Colonial Agriculture -- 3. Land Distribution and the Expansion of the American Landscape -- 4. Opening up the American West -- 5. Water Access and Immigration Issues -- 6. Public Sector Institutions, Education, and Innovation -- 7. Infrastructure...

Introduction -- Framing the Approach -- Economic Dualism as a Structural Constraint of South Eastern Europe Economies and Societies -- The Post-Communist Period (1989-2000). Land Reform Between Property Rights Restoration and the Reorganization of Work and Production Relationships in Agriculture...

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Agriculture and the Pursuit of Economic Growth -- Chapter 2. Farmers and the Dynamics of Agricultural Change in Interwar Europe -- Chapter 3. Agriculture and the State -- Chapter 4. When did the Landed Elites Give up Power? A European Perspective -- Chapter 5. Land...