Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe Since 1870 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lains, Pedro; Pinilla, Vicente

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whilst many books on the European economy have focused on the analysis of its industrial sectors, this book draws attention to the often ignored contribution made by the development of European agriculture over the past two centuries. In doing so, the authors adopt a revisionist perspective on the subject, addressing the lack of coherent study of the agricultural sector and reassessing old theories about the links between agricultural and economic development.

In focusing on those countries which by 1870 still had a large agricultural sector, namely, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Greece and Turkey, this book determines the role of the agricultural sector in the economic development of Europe. These chapters demonstrate how the rate of development in the agricultural sector depended on specific industrial, political and market conditions; the diversity of ways and timings through which transformation was achieved is also considered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134095445
• Artikelnr.: 42676117

Autorenporträt

Pedro Lains is Research Professor at the University of Lisbon. Vicente Pinilla is Professor of Economic History at the University of Zaragoza.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Pedro Lains and Vicente Pinilla
PART I - The Context
Chapter 1. Conceptual issues for the comparative study of agricultural development
Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode
Chapter 2. Europe and the international trade in agricultural and food products
1870-2000
Gema Aparicio
Vicente Pinilla and Raul Serrano
Chapter 3. Agriculture and structural change: lessons from the UK experience in an international context
Steve Broadberry
PART II - Country Studies
Chapter 4. Technological change
institutional development and economic growth in Dutch agriculture
1870-1939
Jan-Pieter Smits
Chapter 5. The contribution of agriculture to economic growth in Denmark
1870-1939
Ingrid Henriksen
Chapter 6. Swedish agriculture in economic development
1870-1939
Lennart Schon. Chapter 7. Agriculture and economic development in Germany
1870-1939
Oliver Grant
Chapter 8. Agriculture and economic development in France
1870-1939
Nadine Vivier
Chapter 9
Agriculture and economic development in Italy
1870-1939
Giovanni Federico
Chapter 10. Local comparative advantage: agriculture and economic development in Poland
1870-1970
Nikolaus Wolf
Chapter 11. Agricultural development and impeded growth: the case of Hungary 1870-1973
Michael Kopsidis
Chapter 12. The contribution of agriculture to Spanish economic development
1870-1973
Ernesto Clar and Vicente Pinilla
Chapter 13. Agriculture
institutional change and economic development in Portugal
1870-1973
Pedro Lains
Chapter 14. Agriculture and economic development in Greece
1870-1973
Socrates Petmezas
Chapter 15. Agriculture and economic development in Turkey
1870-2000
Sevket Pamuk