Advances in agricultural economics

Issues surrounding agriculture have always had pride of place among academic research in economic history. Interest in agricultural issues does not seem to come into fashion, and then fade into the background only to return years later. Indeed, agriculture was so vital to the workings of historical...

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Main Author: Kauffman, Kyle Dean
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2003
Series:Advances in agricultural economic history
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Great disappointments : the lessons from nineteenth century transitions from slavery to free labor / Stanley L. Engerman
  • Weather effects on European agricultural price inflation 1870-1913 / Solomos Solomou, Weike Wu
  • Agricultural labor market integration in the antebellum northeast : evidence from two New York farms / John E. Murray
  • Freehold tenure in late eighteenth century Denmark / Ingrid Henriksen
  • The complexion gap : the economic consequences of color among free African Americans in the rural antebellum South / Howard Bodenhorn
  • A capital intensive innovation in a capital-scarce world : steam-threshing in nineteenth century Italy / Giovanni Federico