Since the mid-1900s, agricultural global value chains (AGVCs) have grown rapidly and transformed the nature of agri-food production around the world. Little is known, however, about how participation in AGVCs changes the structure of participating economies. Using a constructed panel dataset...

The Cultural Economy of Land is situated at two crossroads of agrarian history. The first is the cyclical seasonality of agriculture and the linear progressive time of technological innovation and political transformation; and the second is that of the economic and cultural meanings associated...

1. Old Wealth Horse to New Wealth Ox -- 2. Settled Population -- 3. What Climatic Change during the First Global Age Tells Us -- 4. Emerging Seed Science in CFT -- 5. Drought - Enduring and Leguminous plants science -- 6. The Organization of CFT -- 7. Conclusion -- 8. Preface -- 9. Preparing the...

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...

Diese Pionierstudie beleuchtet am Beispiel des Reichsgaues Niederdonau alltägliche Kräftefelder zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Agrargesellschaft, in denen ländliche Akteure untereinander und mit NS-Funktionsträgern um Ressourcen rangen. Das Entwicklungsprojekt des völkischen...

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

Ecclesiastical responses to the fifteenth-century recession -- Path dependency on the eclesiastical estates in the sixteenth century -- The great lay landowners -- The fortunes of the gentry -- The influx of 'new' wealth -- The rise of the church leaseholder -- Diverging experiences: yeomen and...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Natural Environment -- Chapter 2 The Political and Military Environment -- Chapter 3 The Rural Economy -- Chapter 4 The Seigneury -- Chapter 5 Institutions of Local Governance --...

1. Things by which one measures one's life. Wealth and poverty in European rural societies / Anton Schuurman -- 2. Economic and cultural differentiation among the Late Medieval and early modern Danish peasantry / Bjørn Poulsen -- 3. Living conditions in the houses of the islands of the Cyclades...