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Book SynopsisIssues surrounding agriculture have always had pride of place among academic research in economic history. This volume reflects, both geographically and methodologically, the scope of cutting edge work being done in this area.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Editorial Board. Editorial Policy and Manuscript form guidelines. Editor's Introduction. Great disappointments: The lessons from nineteenth century transitions from slavery to free labor (S.L. Engerman). Freehold tenure in late eighteenth century Denmark (I. Henriksen). The complexion gap: The economic consequences of color among free African Americans in the rural antebellum south (H. Bodenhorn). A capital intensive innovation in a capital-scarce world: Steam-threshing in nineteenth century Italy (G. Federico). Weather effects on European agriculture price inflation 1870-1913 (S. Solomou, W. Wu). Agricultural labor market integration in the antebellum northeast: Evidence from two New York farms (J. E. Murray).
