This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

"La terre prodigue ses ressources et confère la puissance à ceux qui se l'approprient. Les sociétés n'ont eu de cesse de se battre et de mourir pour elle : conquêtes, guerres civiles, autoritarismes, etc. Parce que la possession de la terre demeure un moteur politique décisif, Pierre Blanc...

In the modern era, China's rural credit landscape is transforming at a dizzying rate, but, in terms of financial development, these changes represent a second attempt in the past 100 years to reform China's credit institutions and provide credit access to farmers. The first period was during the...

The dry belt and changing aridity in the Palliser Triangle, 1895-2000 / Gregory P. Marchildon, Jeremy Pittman, and David J. Sauchyn -- Schools and social disintegration in the Alberta dry belt of the twenties / David C. Jones -- Institutional adaptation to drought and the special areas of...

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements. 1. An Introduction to the Fault Lines and Farm Policy. 2. The Origins of Farm Policy (1909-1933). 3. Adjusting to the New Deal and War (1933-1945) 4. Transitions and Turbulence After War (1945-1949) 5. Surplus of Problems and Disagreement...

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...

In 2008, the EU voted to liberalize its system of planting rights which has strictly regulated vine plantings in the EU. However, after an intense lobbying campaign the liberalization of the planting right system was overturned in 2013 and new regulations created an even more restrictive system....

Introduction: Transnational agricultural history in the North American West / Sterling Evans -- Agricultural connections across North America. Dependent harvests: grain production on the American and Canadian plains and the double dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Meat in the...

Introduction / Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains -- Part 1. State formation and Malthusian growth -- The Reconquista and its legacy, 1000-1348 / Antonio Henriques -- The Black Death and recovery, 1348-1500 / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues -- Part 2. New frontiers, crisis and growth -- Coping with Europe...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The agro-industrial roots of the US capitalist transition through state capacity building : 1830-1870 -- The end of slavery and southern agricultural class structure -- Farmer organizations : the rise and fall of populism -- State institutional capacity...

Over the past decades, archaeological field surveys and excavations have greatly enriched our knowledge of the Roman countryside. Drawing on such new data, the volume 'The Economic Integration of Roman Italy', edited by Tymon de Haas and Gijs Tol, presents a series of papers that explore the...

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

It is hard to imagine in the 21st global wine economy, but until 50 years ago Algeria was the largest exporter of wine in the world - and by a wide margin. Between 1880 and 1930 Algerian wine production grew dramatically. Equally spectacular is the decline of Algerian wine production: today,...

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society's history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

Beg, empire, and agrarian developments in Central Asia, 1500-1750 -- Capitalist imperatives : imperial interconnections and the oasis local economy, 1759-1825 -- The "holy wars" of the uprooted, 1826-1830 -- The "just and liberal rule" of Zuhur Al-Din, 1831-1846 -- Global crises of oasis...

Early market regulation to 1327 -- The response of Edward II and his government to the Great Famine -- The food riots of 1347 -- Royal paternalism and the response to dearth, 1349-1376 -- Scarcity and food riots, 1377-1439 -- Harvest failure and scarcity in the reign of Henry VIII -- The...

Introduction -- Organizational structure: the rise of the local farm bureau -- Organizational strategy: economic, political, and social functions -- Science, cultural authority, and the farm bureau: bovine tuberculosis -- Home bureaus and the sciences of separate spheres -- Women and the...