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Custom in context : Medieval and Early Modern Scotland and England [PDF]
Studying custom and its context gives unique insights into relations of property, production and law in a society. The first part of the article discusses meaning in Scotland, focusing on ‘custom as normative practice, custom as unwritten law, and custom
Houston, Robert (Rab)
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In 1594, the viceroy of Perú don García Hurtado de Mendoza appointed don Pedro Osores de Ulloa as judge of land composition in the province of Charcas, in order to review the questioned performance of his predecessor, don fray Luis López, bishop of Quito,
M. Carolina Jurado
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British economic growth : 1270 - 1870 [PDF]
We provide annual estimates of GDP for England between 1270 and 1700 and for Great Britain between 1700 and 1870, constructed from the output side. The GDP data are combined with population estimates to calculate GDP per capita. We find English per
Broadberry, S. N. +4 more
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The review of publications from the fields of plant protection and agrarian history
The present paper is a review of publications on plant protection, agrarian history and on related fields of the author Academician Prof. Emer., Dddr. Jože Maček for the period 1948-2007.
Jože MAČEK*
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Collective Farms of Black-Earth Villages in Russia during the New Economic Policy Period
The authors consider the problem of the development of collective farms in the villages of the provinces of the Central Black Earth Region. The peculiarities of the peasants’ perception of the new forms of agricultural production are shown with their ...
Vadim P. Nikolashin +2 more
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Explaining vineyard specialization in the province of Barcelona (Spain) in the mid-19th century [PDF]
[cat] Presentem un model estadístic de l’especialització vitícola a la província de Barcelona cap el 1860 que combina la pressió boserupiana de l’augment de població, l’atracció de la demanda induïda per un creixement de tipus smithià (mesurada per les ...
Badia-Miró, Marc +4 more
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Into their land and labours : a comparative and global analysis of trajectories of peasant transformation [PDF]
The fate of rural societies in the past and today cannot be understood in a singular manner. Peasantries across the world have followed different trajectories of change and have developed divergent repertoires of accommodation, adaptation and resistance.
Cottyn, Hanne, Vanhaute, Eric
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During the 1940s, the United States undertook a series of ambitious programs to exploit raw materials —mineral, vegetable, and animal— in Latin America. These programs, which required the United States to use all its scientific, economic, and diplomatic ...
Nicolás Cuvi
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Tracing the metabolic rift in Colombia's greengrocer: an environmental history of the Anaime Valley [PDF]
This paper stems from research to reconstruct an environmental history of agriculture in the Anaime Canyon Valley and better understand the environmental consequences of having transformed the area into “Colombia's greengrocer”.
Doughman, Richard
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The authors analyze the interaction between the central and regional authorities and the Kazakhs of the Steppe Region at the turn of the XX century on land use issues.
Yuliya A. Lysenko +2 more
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