Introduction : issues, theory, and methods -- Explaining regional differences in economic organization across Europe -- The new institutional economics, field systems, and economic change -- Rural institutions and agrarian change in England -- Rural institutions and agrarian change in the...

"The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes...