Rural Worlds – serie
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14 produkter
Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960
From food shortages to food surpluses
Av Carin Martiin, Juan Pan-Montojo m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly …
Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960
From food shortages to food surpluses
Av Carin Martiin, Juan Pan-Montojo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly …
Rockites, Magistrates and Parliamentarians
Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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Early nineteenth-century Ireland witnessed widespread and prolonged rural unrest, as groups of labourers and smallholders formed secret societies demanding land reform, fair rents, the protection of wages and an end to tithes. One of the most active of these groups - the Rockites - waged a vigorous …
Inclusive Commons and the Sustainability of Peasant Communities in the Medieval Low Countries
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox? Late medieval and Early Modern rural societies encountered challenges because of growing population pressure, urbanisation and commercialisation. While some regions went along this path and commercialised and intensified production, …
Transforming the Countryside
The Electrification of Rural Britain
Av Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply. By 1938, two-thirds of rural dwellings had been connected to a centrally generated supply, but the majority of farms in Britain were not linked to …
Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
Agricultural economists and statistics
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. The book carefully describes three main forms of economic observation: enquiries, statistics, and farm …
Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain …
Inclusive Commons and the Sustainability of Peasant Communities in the Medieval Low Countries
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox? Late medieval and Early Modern rural societies encountered challenges because of growing population pressure, urbanisation and commercialisation. While some regions went along this path and commercialised and intensified production, …
Farm Animals in Britain, 1850-2001
Av Karen Sayer
Inbunden, 2024
1427 kr
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Focusing on the origins and development of the conceptualisation of the biological animal body as a ’technological’ resource, or indeed problem, within modern British agriculture, this book addresses the changing understanding, among agriculturalists and the public, of ’nature’ in farming.
Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements
Inbunden, 2014
2818 kr
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Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain …
Managing for Posterity
The Le Stranges at Hunstanton and Their Estates, 1604-1724
Inbunden, 2024
1659 kr
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Securing the status and long-term survival of the family has always been the principal concern of the English aristocracy and gentry, and central to that ambition, at least until the late nineteenth century, was the successful management of their landed estates. By the late sixteenth century, price …
Transforming the Countryside
The Electrification of Rural Britain
Av Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply. By 1938, two-thirds of rural dwellings had been connected to a centrally generated supply, but the majority of farms in Britain were not linked to …
Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
Agricultural economists and statistics
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. The book carefully describes three main forms of economic observation: enquiries, statistics, and farm …
Rockites, Magistrates and Parliamentarians
Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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Early nineteenth-century Ireland witnessed widespread and prolonged rural unrest, as groups of labourers and smallholders formed secret societies demanding land reform, fair rents, the protection of wages and an end to tithes. One of the most active of these groups - the Rockites - waged a vigorous …
