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Autore |
Koning Niek <1948-> |
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Titolo |
The failure of agrarian capitalism : agrarian politics in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846-1919 / / Niek Koning |
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New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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1-134-82289-8 |
1-280-33101-1 |
0-203-29593-5 |
0-203-03124-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Agriculture and state - Europe - History - 19th century |
Agriculture and state - United States - History - 19th century |
Agriculture and state - Europe - History - 20th century |
Agriculture and state - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-277) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Plan and method of the study; AGRARIAN CAPITALISM: GROWTH AND MISCARRIAGE; Growth of agrarian capitalism; Changes in the age of the second Industrial Revolution; Decline of large farms; Effects on the demand for farm policies; Agrarian politics and the general political evolution; MID-1840's TO c. 1873: THE LIBERAL YEARS; Farm structures and technical progress; Liberalizing tendency in farm policies; Wealth-controlling rural classes and the liberalization of agricultural trade |
Institutional bases of farm progress Few reasons for indulgence with small farmers and farm labourers; Agrarian capitalism and the rise of classical liberalism; c. 1873 TO LATE 1890's: THE WATERSHED; Repercussions on farm output and productivity; Set-back for large farms; Government intervention along diverging paths; United States, the Netherlands and the blessings of comparative advantage; United Kingdom, Germany and the determinants of free trade or protection; |
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Bourgeois fears, defence of ground rents, and the turn to land reform; Agricultural crisis and the decline of liberalism |
LATE 1890's TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AGRICULTURE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCE Evolution of farm structures; Farm output and productivity; Government and the beginnings of agricultural Taylorism; Increase in land reform; Delay in social policies for farm labourers; Agricultural trade policies: the United States and the Netherlands; Tariff question in the United Kingdom and Germany: the struggle over national destiny; Ambiguities of agrarian corporatism; Swan song of the Old Regime; THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND BEYOND; Agriculture and food supply during the war; After-effects; DISCUSSION |
Neo-classical economics and the landlord-blame view Landlord political power: need for reconsidering?; APPENDIX: Statistical data on agricultural development in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1850 1913; Notes; References; Index |
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