Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415684958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 342 str.

Ellen Hillbom; Patrick Svensson

Opis

History teaches us that the agricultural transformation process is a necessary step towards better living conditions in all societies. A rising productivity in agriculture allows for increasing incomes within agriculture simultaneously as more resources can be devoted to other sectors. Within the field of economic history one of the overriding debates during the last decade has been whether long term economic change is primarily driven by institutional change or changes in factor endowments. This book uses a global history approach to better understand the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparisons over time and space.

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Introduction Ellen Hillbom and Patrick Svensson  1. Agricultural Transformation, Land Ownership, and Markets in Inland Spain: The Case of Southern Navarre, 1600–1935  José-Miguel Lana Berasain  2. Are Institutions the Whole Story? Frontier Expansion, Land Quality and Ownership Rights in the River Plate, 1850–1920 Henry Willebald  3. State-led Agricultural Development and Change in Yogyakarta, 1973–1996 Tobias Axelsson  4. Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864–1914 Steven Nafziger  5. Slaves as Capital Investment in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652–1795 Johan Fourie  6. Land Inequality and Agrarian per Capita Incomes in Guadalajara, Spain, 1690–1800  Carlos Santiago-Caballero  7. Smallholders’ Access to Financial Institutions in Meru, Tanzania, 1995–2011 Ellen Hillbom  8. Production and Credits: A Micro–Level Analysis of the Agrarian Economy in Västra Karaby Parish, Sweden, 1786–1846 Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson  9. Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency. Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c. 1900–1940 Erik Green  10. Peasants Households’ Access to Land and Income Diversification, the Peruvian–Andean Case 1998–2000 Jackeline Velazco and Vicente Pinilla  11. Institutional Models for Accelerating Agricultural Commercialization: Evidence from Maize, Cotton and Horticulture in Zambia, 1965–2012 Antony Chapoto, Steven Haggblade, Munguzwe Hichaambwa, Stephen Kabwe, Steven Longabaugh, Nicholas J. Sitko and David Tschirley  12. Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in the Structural Transformation: A Macro–Micro Perspective C. Peter Timmer