Growth and stagnation in European historical agriculture
By: edited by Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson
Contributors: COST Action A35 Progressore (Project)
Series: Rural history in Europe -- 6; Rural history in Europe -- 6.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9782503540764
Subjects: Agricultural productivity; History; Agriculture
Description: For a long period of history, lack of access to the land has been seen as one of the most decisive factors in preventing the marriage of large parts of the rural population. This volume offers an up-to-date discussion of the interaction between inheritance practices, marriage and the household formation of those who inherited as well as of those who were excluded from inheriting the family farm or part of it. It considers to what extent and for which reasons significant differences in inheritance patterns and in the structure of rural households can be observed in Europe right up to the present. This volume focuses on impartible as well as partible inheritance and examines how the timing of property transfer, modes of transfer (ante-mortem or post-mortem) and also retirement practices gave rise to many different strategies which differed widely not only in semi-subsistence, seignorial economies, but also in highly market-oriented economies.
Notes: Publication supported by COST Action A35 Progressore.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Measuring and explaining agricultural growth / Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson; title: Some aspects of the question of productivity in early medieval Europe : the case of Eastern Belgium / Alexis Wilkin; title: Agricultural productivity in England, 1700-1914 / John Beckett and Michael Turner; title: Agricultural productivity in the coastal and inland area of Friesland, 1700-1850 / Merjin Knibbe; title: Agricultural production in southern Sweden 1702-1864 / Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson; title: Land and labour intensification in the agricultural modernization of southwest Germany, 1760-1860 / Frank Konersmann; title: The limits of agricultural growth in a fragile eco-system : total factor productivity in Alentejo, 1750-1850 / Helder Adegar Fonseca and Jaime Reis; title: The modernization of agriculture under tough environmental constraints : one hundred years of Aragonese agricultural production, 1885-1985 / Vicente Pinilla and Ernesto Clar; title: Prices and productivity in inland Spain during the nineteenth-century : a "sleepwalking" agriculture? / José-Miguel Lana-Berasain; title: Agricultural productivity growth in Russia, 1861-1912 : from inertia to ferment / Carol S. Leonard; title: Italian agriculture 1861-1940 : a regional perspective / Giovanni Federico.