Tony Waters

The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture (eBook, PDF)

Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216291831
• Artikelnr.: 75141487

Autorenporträt

Tony Waters is a member of the faculty of the Department of Peace Studies at Payap University, Thailand, and professor of sociology at California State University, Chico .

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Persistence of Subsistence: Life Beneath the Level of the
Marketplace
Chapter 2 Why Subsistence Peasants Are Important
Chapter 3 Theoretical Overview: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Chapter 4 Pre-industrial Scotland, or How Adam Smith Got Workers into His
Pin Factory
Part 5 The Persistence of the Subsistence Peasant from the Eighteenth to
the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 6 America's Triumphant Subsistence Peasantry 1620-1820, or How
Daniel Boone Ran from Ben Franklin's Shopkeepers
Chapter 7 Squatting, Pre-emption, and Nowhere Left to Run: An Ascendant
Market Catches Pa Ingalls
Chapter 8 Modern Tanzania and the Long Triumph of Subsistence Farmers
Chapter 9 The Persistent Modern Tanzanian Subsistent Peasant
Part 10 Conclusions: Challenging Development Orthodoxies
Chapter 11 Theoretical Implications: Understanding Economic Growth as a
Risky and Recurrent Process
Chapter 12 Modern Development and Subsistence Peasantry