Issues surrounding agriculture have always had pride of place among academic research in economic history. Interest in …, agriculture was so vital to the workings of historical economies that a steady stream of important scholarship continues to be …-scarce world : steam-threshing in nineteenth century Italy / Giovanni Federico. - Issues surrounding agriculture have always had …

The challenge for agriculture and the emergence of agricultural research -- Birth of the land-grant university and its … impact on agricultural research -- Institutionalization of agricultural research -- Changing paradigms in agriculture … -- Recent paradigm changes in agriculture -- Success of agricultural research -- Beneficiaries of agricultural research …