These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe.
In this volume leading historians and economists from India and the West consider some persistent features and variable forces which explain changes through their impact on different levels of decision-making in agriculture.
These original essays are presented to Gordon Mingay, the most distinguished historian of the Agricultural Revolution, and reflect his own interests in three central themes; landownership and landed society; rural labour; and agriculture ...
In celebration of the life's work of modern historian Magnus M^D^D "Orner of Gothenburg University, this collection of essays reviews the life of the rural peasant from all sides, with contributions from historians, anthropologists, ...