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| 1. |  € 69,00 | EAN-13: 9782503519869 G. Béaur
Measuring Agricultural Growth. Land and Labour Productivity in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (England, France and Spain)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2014 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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These chapters also make a break with the illusion of a single and dominant English or Anglo-Dutch model, and take a critical look against preconceptions that consist of interpreting everything in terms of advances or delays, and of ignoring the context behind the economic decisions made by producers. This collection makes it possible to get away from the eternal confrontation of French and English models, and to change the picture by careful consideration of another country with its own very specific natural and institutional conditions: Spain. It sets out to analyse some of the paths taken by farmers to overcome the constraints under which they operated, using historical experience and statistical analysis, without preconceived ideas.
These papers do not hesitate to cross traditional chronological boundaries and look at different scales of production, at different times and in different places. They make incursions into a subject that is still crucial to present-day society, at a moment when the future of the food supply on much of the planet is as urgent and acute as ever. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. | € 75,00 | EAN-13: 9782503540580 E. Thoen
Landscapes or seascapes?. The history of the coastal environment in the North Sea area reconsidered
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2013 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 75,00 | | Descrizione | This volume deals with the geographical evolution of the coastal areas adjacent to the North Sea, with a focus upon the last two thousand years. Although many articles are reworked in a fundamental way, most of them are the result of a conference which took place in 2010 at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and which was actually the third in a series of symposiums on the same broad theme. The first took place in 1958, and the second in 1978. Recognized specialists were invited to present their research in a variety of fields relating to the subject. The various disciplines in which the coastal plains are studied too often remain within their own borders, and so we have set out to thoroughly interweave them in the hope that this will spur greater interdisciplinary cooperation. This collection of texts is intended to appeal not just to experts in historical geography, but to historians and scientists working in any field who wish to gain insights into the present ?state of play?.
Detailed geological research about many areas provided new data and researchers gradually gained a better understanding of the close relationship between the processes of deposition, sea-level change, and land formation taking place across multiple regions. In the same time, historical and archaeological research also evolved. Most significantly, ideas regarding the chronology of human occupation have changed a lot. This scope of the research collected in this volume is important because it has increasingly become evident that land loss and gain were the results of regional factors, including and especially human activities. Moreover, it is now clear that humans devised survival strategies, and thus organized their activities in relation to the environment, on a regional basis, which means that the causes of local changes must have been both natural and socio-historical. It has now become clearer than ever that there is no single chronological scheme capable of explaining the coastal evolution across the entirety of the North Sea area.
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Erik Thoen is professor in rural history and environmental history at the Ghent University (B) and co-ordinator of the CORN network
Guus J. Borger is emeritus professor in historical geography at the University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam (NL)
Tim Soens is professor in rural history and environmental history at the University of Antwerp (B)
Adriaan M.J. de Kraker is senior researcher in historical geography at the VU University Amsterdam (NL)
Dries Tys is professor at the Brussels Free University (VUB) (B)
Lies Vervaet is assistant specialised in rural history at the Ghent University (B)
Henk J.T. Weerts is senior researcher paleogeography at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 3. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503519845 T. Lambrecht
Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c. 1850
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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This book retraces the nature and role of credit in the
pre-industrial European countryside. As part of an ongoing
examination of credit and its provision in European past societies,
the nine papers collected in this volume offer further insight into
the ways in which credit was provided and managed, as well as the
opportunities which credit may or may not have presented in
effecting economic and social change between c. 1200 and c. 1850.
In these respects, the papers in this volume add to a developing
investigation of the history of credit and of indebtedness in
northern Europe, which also coincides with a continued interest in
the structures of credit evident in studies of southern European
societies. The present volume also, for a broad North Sea region,
develops a concentration upon the economic and social history of
credit from the late medieval period to the early nineteenth
century. The themes here are deliberately focused on the nature of
credit, its form and structure, as well as upon the economic and
social impact of credit and the changing availability of the
same.
Phillipp Schofield is Professor of Medieval History at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society. He has published extensively on the social,
economic and demographic history of late medieval peasant
society in England.
Thijs Lambrecht is postdoctoral researcher with the Research
Foundation Flanders and the Department of Early Modern History at
Ghent University. His research focuses on rural markets in the
Southern Netherlands during the early modern period.
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| 4. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503522548 P. Schofield
The development of leasehold in northwestern Europe, c. 1200 1600
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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In the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, the exploitation of
landownership underwent drastic changes in various parts of
Northwestern Europe. In these changes, the emergence of the lease
plays a pivotal role. At the end of the Middle Ages, in a number of
areas within the North Sea area, the greater part of available land
was held at lease for relatively short terms. The competitive and
contractual nature of such leasing has caused many to associate it
with the emergence of capitalism in the countryside, seeing its
rise as a key element in the transformation of the rural economy
and society in the last millennium. In view of this, it is
surprising that the emergence of leasing has received little
systematic attention, particularly where its roots, its early
development, its exact arrangements and the social and economic
context of its emergence are concerned, let alone the regional and
chronological differences in these elements. This volume aims to
make a first step in exploring these issues.
Bas van Bavel is professor of Economic and Social History of
the Middle Ages at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Phillipp (P.R.) Schofield is professor of Medieval History,
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
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| 5. | € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503517797 Y. Segers
Exploring the food chain. Food production and food processing in Western Europe, 1850-1990
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2009 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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Until the late 19th century the
food industry was restricted to a few activities, usually based on
small scale industries. The links between agriculture and food
processing were very tight. Due to increased purchasing power,
population growth and urbanisation, the demand for food grew
substantially. This was not only the case for basis products as
corn and potatoes, but also and especially for more expensive,
quality products as meat, fish and dairy produce. These
developments generated, together with the essential technological
innovations, the creation and development of modern food processing
in specialized shops and factories. In only a few decades these
industries transformed from an important complement to the primary
agricultural production on the farms to a much comprising
industrial business. At the end of the 20th century food processing
has evolved into a modern, high-tech industry, dominated by a few
large enterprises, offering a wide range of products. This volume
aims to turn the spotlight on this often neglected but important
link in the food chain.
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| 6. | € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503519852 R. Paping
When the Potato Failed. Causes and Effects of the Last European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2007 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 70,00 | | Descrizione | The decade that gave rise to the term the Hungry Forties in Europe is often regarded, and rightly so, as one of deprivation, unrest, and revolution. Two events, the Great Irish Famine and the various political events of 1848, stand out. This book is the first to discuss the subsistence crisis of the 1840s in a truly comparative way. This subsistence crisis may be divided into two rather distinct elements. On the one hand, the failure of the potato caused by the new, unfamiliar fungus, phytophthera infestans, which first struck Europe in mid-1845, resulted in a catastrophe in Ireland that killed about one million people, and radically transformed its landscape and economy. Poor potato crops in 1845 and in the following years also resulted in significant excess mortality elsewhere in Europe. On the other hand, this period, and 1846 in particular, was also one of poor wheat and rye harvests throughout much of Europe. Failure of the grain harvest alone rarely resulted in a subsistence crisis, but the combination of poor potato and grain harvests in a single place was a lethal one. Connections between the local and the global, between the economic and the political, and between the rural and the industrial, make the crisis of the late 1840s a multi-layered one.
This book offers a comparative perspective on the causes and the effects of what is sometimes considered as the last European subsistence crisis. It begins with an extensive introduction that treats the topic in comparative perspective. The subsistence crisis had its most catastrophic impact in Ireland, and three chapters in the current volume are concerned mainly with that country. A fourth chapter uses price data to shed comparative perspective on the crisis, while the remaining nine chapters are case studies covering countries ranging from Sweden to Spain and from Scotland to Prussia. Throughout, the contributors focus on a range of common themes, such as the extent of harvest deficits, the functioning of food markets, fertility and mortality, and public action at local and national levels.
Cormac àGráda is professor of economics at University College, Dublin. He has worked extensively on the history of famines in Ireland and worldwide.
Richard Paping teaches economic and social history and economics at University of Groningen. He has done extensive research on developments in standard-of-living, economy and demography in the Netherlands.
Eric Vanhaute is professor social and economic history and world history at Ghent University. He has mainly published on the history of the rural society and of labour markets in Flanders and outside.
Table of contents:
Eric Vanhaute, Richard Paping and Cormac àGráda, The European Subsistence Crisis of 1845850: a Comparative Perspective
PART I - The Irish Famine in an International Perspective
Cormac àGráda, Irelands Great Famine. An overview - Mary E. Daly, Something Old and Something New. Recent Research on the Great Irish Famine - Peter M. Solar, The Crisis of the Late 1840s. What Can Be Learned From Prices - Peter Gray, The European Food Crisis and the Relief of Irish Famine, 1845850
PART II - A Potato Famine Outside Ireland
Tom M. Devine, Why the Highlands Did Not Starve. Ireland and Highland Scotland During the Potato Famine - Eric Vanhaute, So Worthy an Example to Ireland. The Subsistence and Industrial Crisis of 1845850 in Flanders - Richard Paping and Vincent Tassenaar, The Consequences of the Potato Disease in the Netherlands 1845860: a Regional Approach - Hans H. Bass, The Crisis in Prussia - Gunter Mahlerwein, The Consequences of the Potato Blight in South Germany - Nadine Vivier, The Crisis in France. A Memorable Crisis But Not a Potato Crisis - Jean Michel Chevet and Cormac àGráda, Crisis: What Crisis Prices and Mortality in Mid-Nineteenth Century France - Pedro Díaz Marín, Subsistence Crisis and Popular Protest in Spain. The Motines of 1847- Ingrid Henriksen, A Disaster Seen From the Periphery. The Case of Denmark - Carl-Johan Gadd, On the Edge of a Crisis: Sweden in the 1840s
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| 7. | € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503510057 E. Thoen
Rural history in the North Sea area. An overview of recent research (Middle Ages - beginning twentieth century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2006 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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This volume describes the outlines of the 'state of the art' in
the field of rural history for countries such as England, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Northern France, and presents an
overview of the most important publications regarding the areas
covered.
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| 8. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503517803 P. Scholliers
Land, Shops and Kitchens: Technology and the Food Chain in Twentieth-Century Europe
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2005 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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The book discusses the concept of
the food chain from a new perspective, emphasising the historical
dimension and conflicts. The inclusion of technology, as a core
element, is an original approach to food studies. Thus, technology
is related to agricultural production, packaging, transport and
storing, wholesale and retailing, catering, and cooking. Also, the
so-called middle field, such as political interference, farmers'
education and scientific concerns, is addressed. This book pays
attention to the history of agriculture, including such varied
themes as water supply, fertilisers, land use, greenhouses, and EU
policy. It tackles the history of shopping, cooking, health
concerns, and fast food eating-places. Technology is not taken for
granted, but seen as a field of conflict (action, reaction, and
negotiation, perhaps best cast with the opposition fast food versus
slow food). The concept of the food chain necessitates to consider
all these elements as a whole, and to present them in one,
integrated volume.
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| 9. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503510972 P. Hoppenbrouwers
Landholding and Land Transfer in the North Sea Area (Late Middle Ages - 19th Century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2004 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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For a better understanding of
medieval and early modern rural society, in which land was the
principal source of income and investment, as well as a most
prestigious object of possession and a solid base of power,
historical questions on landholding and land transfers are highly
relevant. This volume aims to clarify some long-standing issues
concerning the large variety of land tenure and non-familial
transfers of land in the North Sea area by treating them from a
regional - if possible comparative - perspective and by linking
them to such structural features of preindustrial rural society as
shifts in land to labour ratio's; social property relations;
commercialisation and the rise of land, leasehold, and credit
markets; the growth of state intervention and the institutional
innovation that followed in its wake; the sustained prevalence of
local or regional customary law; and the effects of social and
cultural values on the demand for land. From viewing the later
medieval and early modern period as a whole, one has to conclude
that the mobility of agricultural land markedly increased. This was
due first and foremost to the establishment of clear-cut private
property rights, to the expansion of land and credit markets, and
to the spread of short-term leasing. Differences in the pace of
capitalist development as well as of state formation were mainly
responsible for outspoken regional differences.
Bas van Bavel is research leader in economic and social history
at the University of Utrecht.
Peter Hoppenbrouwers is
professor of medieval history at the University of
Amsterdam.
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| 10. | € 60,00 | EAN-13: 9782503512730 M. De Moor
The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500-1850.
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2002 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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"This is a welcome reinvestigation of the role of commons in the wider rural economies of which they were such an important part." (Michael Turner, Economic History Review, 2003, LVI, 3, 582-583).
"(...) we now have a most interesting comparative study that combines the systematic approach of the social sciences with up-to-date historiographies of commons in a large part of Europe, giving rise to new questions and research perspectives." (Petra J. E. M. van Dam, Environmental History 9, October 2004, 743-745) | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 11. | € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503512815 B. Blondé
Labour and labour markets between town and countryside (Middle Ages - 19th century)
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2001 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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This book brings together specialists
in economic and social history to explore a series of key mechanisms
related to the organisation and interdependence of urban and rural
labour markets.
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| 12. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503510064 P. Hoppenbrouwers
Peasants into Farmers. The transformation of rural economy and society in the Low Countries (Middle Ages - 19th century) in light of the Brenner debate.
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2001 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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This volume aims to prove the decisive
role Flanders and Holland played in the economic development of Europe
in the light of Brenner's model.
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| 13. | € 65,00 | EAN-13: 9782503509624 E. Thoen
Land Productivity and Agro-systems in the North Sea Area (Middle Ages - 20th Century). Elements for Comparison
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 1999 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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This book deals with land productivity and agro-systems, and
reflects the new developments and findings in this field by placing and
analysing land productivity more clearly within agricultural,
ecological and socio-economic contexts.
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| 14. | € 55,00 | EAN-13: 9782503509631 I. Devos
Marriage and Rural Economy. Western Europe since 1400
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 1999 | | Collana: | Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area |
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