Measuring Agricultural Growth English: Land and Labour Productivity in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (England, France and Spain) - Couverture souple

Chevet, Jean-Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2503519865 ISBN 13 : 9782503519869

Editeur : Brepols N.V., 2014

Synopsis

This work takes a new look at the question of agricultural production and productivity and reopens the issue of agricultural growth and the questions that still surround its extraordinary impact on European societies. The nine contributions making up the volume set out another approach to this unprecedented shift, written from a new angle with new methods and a new way of associating micro and macro analyses. These chapters also make a break with the illusion of a single and dominant English or Anglo-Dutch model, and take a critical look against preconceptions that consist of interpreting everything in terms of advances or delays, and of ignoring the context behind the economic decisions made by producers. This collection makes it possible to get away from the eternal confrontation of French and English models, and to change the picture by careful consideration of another country with its own very specific natural and institutional conditions: Spain. It sets out to analyse some of the paths taken by agricultures to overcome the constraints under which they operated, using historical experience and statistical analysis, without preconceived ideas. These papers do not hesitate to cross traditional chronological boundaries and look at different scales of production, at different times and in different places. They make incursions into a subject that is still crucial to present-day society, at a moment when the future of the food supply on much of the planet is as urgent and acute as ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jean-Michel Chevet is a French researcher at ADESSS-UMR-5185 and the Institut Scientifique de la Vigne et du Vin in Bordeaux. He specialises in the economic history of the countryside, particularly French and English growth and the history of vine-growing. Gerard Beaur is directeur des recherches at the CNRS and directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS). He is a specialist in Early Modern economic history and also works extensively on agrarian history. He is a member of the research group, Centre de Recherches Historiques in Paris and directs the International Research Network (GDRI), Crises and Changes in the European Countryside (CRICEC), part of the French CNRS.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols N.V.
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2503519865
• ISBN 13: 9782503519869
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 201
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible