This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World

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 mai

In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern eco

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