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UNINA9910462057803321 |
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Autore |
Queirós Eça de <1845-1900.> |
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The relic [[electronic resource] ] : a novel / / Jose Maria de Eça de Queirós ; translated from the Portuguese by Aubrey F. G. Bell ; preface by Harold Bloom |
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North Dartmouth, MA, : Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, c2012 |
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1-280-49134-5 |
9786613586575 |
1-933227-38-9 |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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BellAubrey F. G <1882-1950.> (Aubrey Fitz Gerald) |
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Portuguese literature - 19th century |
Portuguese literature |
Realism in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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CONTENTS; Preface by Harold Bloom; The Relic |
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A satiric masterpiece, one of the funniest novels in European literature, and a profound critique of religion, science, and history |
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UNINA9910822014103321 |
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Dyer Graham <1958, > |
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Class, state and agricultural productivity in Egypt : a study of the inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity / / Graham Dyer ; foreword by Terence J. Byres |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-135-21189-2 |
1-315-03643-6 |
1-135-21182-5 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Library of Peasant Studies ; ; Number 15 |
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Farms, Size of - Egypt |
Agricultural productivity - Egypt |
Peasants - Egypt |
Agriculture and state - Egypt |
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Materiale a stampa |
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First published in 1997 by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; INTRODUCTION The Present study: Nature and Rationale; I The Nature of the Inverse Relationship and its Apparent Policy Implications; Introduction; I.1 Some apparent policy implications; I.2 Conceptual, statistical and methodological problems; I.3 The inverse relationship vindicated and some conjoint relationships; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter I; II Theoretical Approaches to the Inverse Relationship: Qualitative and Quantitative Factor Differences; Introduction |
II.1 Management and labour quality hypothesesII.2 Land fertility hypothesis; II.3 Labour intensity and labour market dualism: the Sen model; II.4 A critique of the marginalist approach; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter II; III A Class-Based Approach and the Breakdown of the Inverse Relationship in the Dynamic Context; Introduction; III.1 Beyond the marginalist approach; III.2 The inverse relationship in the context of backward agriculture; III.3 The static nature of the Sen approach and the breakdown of the inverse |
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relationship in the dynamic context; Summary and conclusions |
Notes to Chapter IIIIV The Evidence for an Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Egypt: A Shadow Debate; Introduction; IV.1 Some evidence for an inverse relationship in Egypt: Shepley, Radwan, Wilson and Mabro; IV.2 Aggregation and land heterogeneity: Crouch et al.; IV.3 The inverse relationship denied in Egypt: Platt and Commander; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter IV; V The Political Economy of the Contemporary Egyptian Countryside; Introduction; V.1 Agrarian reform and the consolidation of the rich peasantry; V.2 The agrarian elite and the co-operative system |
V.3 Rich peasants and co-operative creditV.4 Implications with respect to the diffusion of modern technology of rich peasant bias in credit; V.5 The dominance of the rich peasantry and the political sphere; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter V; VI A Disaggregated Analysis of the ILO Data: Technical Change and the Inverse Relationship in Egypt; Introduction; VI.1 The ILO survey and its characteristics; VI.2 Analysis and results: (i) The Radwan regression and its questionable nature - the need for a more disaggregated approach |
VI.3 Analysis and results: (ii) A digression on technological change in Egyptian agriculture, uneven development and regional heterogeneityVI.4 Analysis and results: (iii) A disaggregated analysis and evidence of transition; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VI; VII A Closer Look at the Inverse Relationship in the Context of Agrarian Transition: Evidence from Fieldwork in Rural Egypt; Introduction; VII.1 Fieldwork methodology and problems; VII.2 An inverse relationship village in Giza; VII.3 The roots of the inverse relationship in Shubak; Summary and conclusions; Notes to Chapter VII |
VIII A Positive Relationship Village in Qena and the Emerging Comparative Picture in the Context of Egyptian Agrarian Transition |
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The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a ""stylized fact"" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating this relationship, and the impact of economic and technological change on the relationship. |
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