Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ate – or, in some years, didn’t eat – underwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Vladimir Putin’s presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is usually...

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- European agriculture 1945-1960 : an introduction / Paul Brassley, Carin Martiin and Juan Pan-Montojo -- International politics -- International institutions and European agriculture : from the IIA to the FAO / Juan Pan-Montojo -- Political stability,...

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...

"Author Ron traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semi-public agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that, together, fundamentally recast the relationship of rural people to market forces and governing structures. A novelty of his historical...