This research paper critically examines the role and impact of media in Weimar and Nazi Germany. The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the subsequent Nazi regime (1933-1945) were crucial periods in German history marked by significant political, social, and cultural transformations. Media played a...

Using variation in crop prices induced by large swings in demand World War I, we examine the fertility response to increases in crop revenues during the period 1910-1930. Our estimates from samples utilizing both complete count decennial census microdata and newly collected county-level data...

Most agricultural output in early 20th century Ireland was consumed on the farm or exported in an unprocessed state. A significant share nevertheless served as an input to Irish industry. While farmers and agri-business firms operated on opposite sides of the market, their relationship was...

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat production witnessed a biological revolution during the 19th...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American agricultural frontier moved for the first time into semi-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and farm sizes to better fit the environment. But...

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of Germany of the 1920s and 1930s. During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced pro-government...

Agricultural output fluctuated worldwide after the emancipation of slaves. The usual explanation is that former slaveholders now lacked labor. This is not the full story: slaves were not just laborers but capital investments to support production. Using databases covering more than 40 years from...

"Tells the story of how apples became the iconic product of Washington State, tracing the origins, evolution, and environmental consequences of the apple industry in Washington State and showing how the industry continues to change in response to consumer demand and climate change." - Provided...

"Examines how Colorado agriculturists, from the Ancestral Puebloans to twenty-first-century ranchers and farmers, have adapted to and sought to overcome the natural limits of land and water. Documents the state's farming history and provides context for significant methodological and ideological...

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...

Mayor Straw Sandals: Kamata Sannosuke and the Meibōka Ideal -- Two The World Turned Upside Down: Hydrological Conflict and the Transformation of Local Leadership -- Three A Harvest of Knowledge and Ambition: Rōnō and the Rise of Agricultural Associations -- Four Fighting the Farmers for...

What Was Lost in Germany Might, in Texas, Be Won -- Inheritors of the Revolution -- Populist Revolt -- The Battle for Socialism in Texas, 1900-1911 -- Tierra y Libertad -- From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire -- Conclusion: Descent into New Deal Liberalism

Chapter 1. --1970s. Fruit industry restructures after freeze disaster --Chapter 2. --1980s. Setbacks for world economy and Washington State fruit industry --Chapter 3. --1990s. New challenges and opportunities --Chapter 4. --2000s. A new regime emerges --Chapter 5. --Increasingly intrusive...

"This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies...

"This book explores the problem of models and their limits over three interrelated sites in the first half of the nineteenth century: questions of landed property in a small area on the eastern coast of British India called Cuttack, debates over the method and categories of political economy in...

Agrarno-posjedovni odnosi u Bosni i Hercegovini do 1945. godine -- Uslovi, okolnosti, pravne i organizacione osnove za izvođenje agrarne reforme i kolonizacije -- Provođenje kolonizacije iz Bosne i Hercegovine u vojvodinu -- Provođenje agrarne reforme i unutrašnje kolonizacije u Bosni i...

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary...

"This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870-1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and...

Part 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Strategic Locations -- Chapter 2. Sources: Artefacts -- Chapter 3. Sources: Documents -- Chapter 4. Post-war Time Shift -- Part Two: Localities -- Chapter 5. Chalk Downs -- Chapter 6. Heathland -- Chapter 7. Lot Meads -- Chapter 8. Drove Roads -- Chapter 9....

Part 1. Apples -- Before There Were Aliens, There Were Apples: Myths, Moths, and Modernity in New Mexico's Early Commercial Orchards -- Patent Lies, the "People's Business," and the Modern Core of Northern New Mexico Agriculture, 1940- -- Part 2. Cotton -- The Shifting Subjects of a Southwest...

"This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book focuses primarily on the comparative and transnational investigation of an antebellum Mississippi planter named John A. Quitman...

Beginnings -- Crop Regions -- Market Revolutions -- Civil War and Reconstructions -- Home on the Range? -- Two World Wars and the Great Depression -- Get Big or Get Out -- The Future: What Kind of Agriculture Do You Want?