Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE: A Car of One's Own -- PART I: Before the Automobile, 1880-1905 -- 1 Roads and Reformers -- PART II: Dawn of the Motor Age, 1895-1919 -- 2 Automotive Pioneers -- 3 Building for Traffic -- Photo Gallery One -- PART III: Creating Car...

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...