Title: Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
Description: "Examining how and why agricultural change and development occurred in western Europe between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries is the focus of this unique comparative, historical study. It describes the factors that account for the transformation of poor, unproductive agricultural regions to regions with much higher productivity and burgeoning industrialization. Countries examined and compared are England, the Netherlands, France, the German lands, and Sweden."--BOOK JACKET.

"Hopcroft's multidisciplinary approach to her subject will interest readers of economics, history, political science, history of economics, agriculture, and comparative historical sociology. Moreover, it will be important to anyone seeking to understand the rise of the West."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Agrarische ontwikkeling, Land reform, Instellingen, Economic aspects, History, Agrarstruktur, Strukturwandel, Land tenure, Landwirtschaft, Geschichte, Ländlicher Raum, Rural conditions, Regio's, Agriculture, Agrarreform, Europe, history