Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Natural Environment -- Chapter 2 The Political and Military Environment -- Chapter 3 The Rural Economy -- Chapter 4 The Seigneury -- Chapter 5 Institutions of Local Governance --...

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian...

Anthropometric studies have given much attention to the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the biological standards of living of urban populations. Instead, we know less about the evolution of height and the disparities within the rural world and how they have changed during the...