Research in economic history
By: edited by Alexander J. Field ; co-edited by Gregory Clark, William A. Sundstrom
Publisher: Elsevier/JAI
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780080498034
Subjects: Business; Economics; Research; Economic Conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Comparative; Economic history; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Economic History
Description: Volume 22 of Research in Economic History contains six papers. Three are on agriculture and two on macro issues related to the Great Depression. A concluding paper examines trends in interstate migration in the United States.Fred Pryor begins the volume with a provocative exploration of the degree to which the Neolithic revolution was in fact revolutionary. Pryor argues for a considerably lesser break with the past than has been commonly asserted. He maintains, in particular, that hunter-gatherer methods of procuring subsistence persisted alongside a continuum of agricultural practices. His ev
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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