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These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe. The authors endeavor to explain the phenomena with explicit use of economic reasoning, and several of the papers draw on fresh historical source materials. The use of economics provides a rel



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 3*1. Medieval Origins of the Common Fields, pg. 23*2. The Persistence of English Common Fields, pg. 73*3. The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis, pg. 123*4. Enclosures and Depopulation: A Marxian 161 Analysis, pg. 161*5. Agriculture and Peasant Industry in Eighteenth-Century Flanders, pg. 179*6. Peasant Demand Patterns and Economic Development: Friesland 1550-1750, pg. 205*7. Organization and Change in Productivity in Eastern Prussia, pg. 269*8 Scale and Organization in French Farming, 1840-1880, pg. 293*Afterword, pg. 327*Index, pg. 361

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691617466, 978-0691617466
      ISBN10: 0691617465

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      These essays discuss principal and much-debated issues in European agrarian history within the context of the general economic history of northwestern Europe. The authors endeavor to explain the phenomena with explicit use of economic reasoning, and several of the papers draw on fresh historical source materials. The use of economics provides a rel



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 3*1. Medieval Origins of the Common Fields, pg. 23*2. The Persistence of English Common Fields, pg. 73*3. The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis, pg. 123*4. Enclosures and Depopulation: A Marxian 161 Analysis, pg. 161*5. Agriculture and Peasant Industry in Eighteenth-Century Flanders, pg. 179*6. Peasant Demand Patterns and Economic Development: Friesland 1550-1750, pg. 205*7. Organization and Change in Productivity in Eastern Prussia, pg. 269*8 Scale and Organization in French Farming, 1840-1880, pg. 293*Afterword, pg. 327*Index, pg. 361

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