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2017
This chapter sets the stage for the dialogues and exchanges of the 1930s and 1940s with a comparative analysis of social, political, and economic change in the US southern and Mexican countryside between the 1870s and 1920s. It argues that the two shared strikingly similar historical trajectories.
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This chapter sets the stage for the dialogues and exchanges of the 1930s and 1940s with a comparative analysis of social, political, and economic change in the US southern and Mexican countryside between the 1870s and 1920s. It argues that the two shared strikingly similar historical trajectories.
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2005
Abstract Late medieval England exhibited infinite variations in the use of the land, often within very localized areas. These were determined by the terrain and soil, economic location, and social and agrarian organization. I shall first survey the broad diversity of its regions, even if the range of their micro-economies can only be ...
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Abstract Late medieval England exhibited infinite variations in the use of the land, often within very localized areas. These were determined by the terrain and soil, economic location, and social and agrarian organization. I shall first survey the broad diversity of its regions, even if the range of their micro-economies can only be ...
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Utility Theory and Agrarian Societies
International Journal of Social Economics, 1985Neo‐classical utility theory has withstood several decades of sustained criticism. Its success has been due (1) to the ability of the theory to represent an essentially non‐analytical process by analytical methods, and (2) to the fact that the theory was developed for, and applied to, advanced market economies where the simplifying assumptions are most
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Rural Society and Agrarian Reform
Problems of Economic Transition, 1994The formation of agrarian reform's social base, that is, of those social groups that support reform and actively participate in it, is a key problem. The principal difficulty is that there was no specific social group in the countryside possessing major reform potential at the beginning of reform, although the peasantry's dissatisfaction with the old ...
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Power in Agrarian and Feudal Societies
2020Individuals in agrarian societies are attached to the land, so those who control the land control the people who work it. Control over land was gained through military power, which gave them political power. Their control over land also gave them economic power, so political and economic power were held by the same people. This produced a feudal system
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The Transformation of Agrarian Society
1992The familiar differences between Greenwich Village in 1974 and, say, Warren, Illinois (pop. 3000), where my grandparents farmed, in 1874, are not only those between rural and urban societies, nor are they summarized by the distinction between the 20th and the 19th century or between one level and distribution of prosperity and another.
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Ireland: Rural development in an agrarian society
European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1986Problems of economic and social development dominate the Irish rural development literature. This article distinguishes five separate themes: the pattern of agricultural adjustment and its consequences for land use and demography; the evaluation of alternative means of creating employment in rural areas; the extent and pattern of social deprivation ...
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