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...

Hours at work and total factor productivity growth in nineteenth-century U.S. agriculture / Lee A. Craig, Thomas Weiss -- Factor endowments and contract choice / Alan Dye -- Moral hazard and asset specificity in the Renaissance : the economics of sharecropping in 1427 Florence / Francesco L....