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

• Autore: Koning Niek <1948->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/84
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation
• Titolo autorizzato: The failure of agrarian capitalism
• ISBN: 1-134-82289-8; 1-280-33101-1; 0-203-29593-5; 0-203-03124-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450134203321
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