Between 1829 and 1853, the Lower Danube region became one of the strategic grain supply points for the Mediterranean entrepôts and a source for supplementing Britain's food requirements. The Crimean War ended in 1856 with Russia's removal from the Mouths of the Danube. In this context, in...

Between 1829 and 1853, the Lower Danube region became one of the strategic grain supply points for the Mediterranean entrepôts and a source for supplementing Britain's food requirements. The Crimean War ended in 1856 with Russia's removal from the Mouths of the Danube. In this context, in...

The role of widows in the artisan-agrarian urban society in East-Central Europe was usually narrowed down to the position of provisional manager of the bequeathed property until a male heir reached adulthood. However, some individual stories show us that women often times were also very capable...

The role of widows in the artisan-agrarian urban society in East-Central Europe was usually narrowed down to the position of provisional manager of the bequeathed property until a male heir reached adulthood. However, some individual stories show us that women often times were also very capable...

This paper provides a quantitative general equilibrium evaluation of the repeal of Britain’s Corn Laws in 1846, the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. In studying the impact of abolishing the import duty on wheat, our framework highlights (a) the large open economy impact...

This volume presents a new history of Orsanmichele, covering the centuries before the Renaissance. It explores the Florentine grain market, the piazza of Orsanmichele and its loggias, and Orsanmichele s important confraternity and Madonnas during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.

Getreide ist ein wichtiges Grundnahrungsmittel. In dieser Dissertation analysiere ich gemeinsam mit meinen Koautoren, wie Mensch und Natur Getreideproduktion und -handel in Deutschland zu verschiedenen Zeiten beeinflussen. Im ersten Papier entwickeln wir einen Ansatz, um die gegenwärtige...

Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. This paper provides a quantitative general equilibrium evaluation of the repeal on sectoral output and employment, factor prices and income distribution, international trade and the terms of...

"A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the...

Like all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ate – or, in some years, didn’t eat – underwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and Vladimir Putin’s presidency. The modernization of agriculture during this time is usually...

Globale Märkte werden von den einen gelobt, von den anderen verteufelt. Doch wie sind sie entstanden und wie lassen sie sich soziologisch untersuchen? Dieses Buch zeigt sowohl an modernen als auch an vormodernen Getreidemärkten, wie sich eine Konkurrenz verschiedener Angebote einstellen...

"For much of the twentieth century, United Grain Growers was one of the major forces in Canadian agriculture. Founded in 1906, for much of its history UGG worked to give western farmers a “third way” between the competing poles of cooperatives like the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the private...

Dieser Artikel entfaltet seine Argumentation in drei Schritten: Erstens wird rekonstruiert, wie Adam Smith der zeitgenössischen Kritik an der Agrarspekulation argumentativ begegnete. Zweitens wird skizziert, wie man der gegenwärtigen Kritik an der (vermeintlichen) Agrarspekulation durch...

"Over a century, the Canadian prairies went from being the breadbasket of the world to a grain-growing region in a vast, global agri-food system. Magnan traces the causes and consequences of this evolution, from the first transatlantic shipments of wheat to the controversial dismantling of the...

Evolución económica de la producción de granos, 1980-2010 / José Pierri y Ezequiel Orlando -- Evolución comparada de los sectores agroindustriales de Argentina y Brasil, 1990-2010 / Susana Merlo y Mercedes Muro de Nadal -- Análisis de costos comparados de la producción agrícola en...

Rome was an exceedingly large city at the start of the Roman Empire, and it required massive grain imports to feed its population. We argue that Roman merchants organized these imports and that they used a variety of mechanisms to deal with the informational problems of long-distance trade at...

Dieser Artikel entfaltet seine Argumentation in drei Schritten: Erstens wird rekonstruiert, wie Adam Smith der zeitgenössischen Kritik an der Agrarspekulation argumentativ begegnete. Zweitens wird skizziert, wie man der gegenwärtigen Kritik an der (vermeintlichen) Agrarspekulation durch...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Usage -- Units of Weight and Measure -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Founding and Feeding an Imperial City -- Chapter 2. Selling Flour in St. Petersburg -- Chapter 3. Sources of Supply -- Chapter 4. Production -- Chapter 5. Commerce -- Chapter 6....

This article examines the advantages and concerns raised from the proposed October 1998 Cargill acquisition of Continental Grain Company's grain merchandising business. The world's largest grain exporter acquiring the second largest exporter raised concerns about potential loss of competition,...