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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806903903321

Autore

Koning Niek <1948->

Titolo

The failure of agrarian capitalism : agrarian politics in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846-1919 / / Niek Koning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-134-82288-X

1-134-82289-8

1-280-33101-1

0-203-29593-5

0-203-03124-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/84

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;



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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