Small Farms: Persistence with Legitimation

ISBN-13: 9780367302863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Alessandro Bonanno

Opis

Through a thorough case study of Italy and a comparative analysis of small farms in the United States, the author explores the complex relationships among farm family members' ideology and behaviour and the interaction of small farms within the relevant spheres of society.

Spis treści

Rural Studies Series -- Introduction -- The Persistence of Small Farms and the Debate in the Literature -- Dualism in Some Advanced Western European Countries and in the United States -- Patterns of Agricultural Development in Italy -- Underdevelopment and Marginal Farming in Southern Italy -- The Persistence of Small Farms -- Accumulation, Legitimation, Small Farms and the State -- The Persistence of Small Farms in the United States: Implications and Perspectives -- Tables and Figures

O autorze

Dr. Alessandro Bonanno is assistant professor of rural sociology at the University of Missouri—Columbia. After undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Messina, Italy, he obtained master’s and doctor’s degrees in sociology at the University of Kentucky.