The persistence of subsistence agriculture : life beneath the level of the marketplace
Tony Waters
| Year of publication: |
2007
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| Authors: | Waters, Tony |
| Publisher: |
Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books |
| Subject: | Peasantry | Farmers | Economic conditions | Agriculture | Economic aspects | Subsistence economy |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [digitool.hbz-nrw.de] |
| Extent: | XII, 256 S. : Ill., Kt. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Bibliographie |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Why subsistence peasants are important -- Theoretical overview : life beneath the level of the marketplace -- Pre-industrial Scotland, or how Adam Smith got workers into his pin factory -- America's triumphant subsistence peasantry 1620-1820, or how Daniel Boone ran from Ben Franklin's shopkeepers -- Squatting, pre-emption, and nowhere left to run : an ascendant market catches Pa Ingalls -- Modern Tanzania and the long triumph of subsistence farmers -- The persistent modern Tanzanian subsistence peasant -- Theoretical implications : understanding economic growth as a risky and recurrent process -- Modern development and the subsistence peasantry. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-0768-2 ; 978-0-7391-0768-3 |
| Classification: | Agrarwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Faktoren |
| Source: |
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