Agricultural Specialisation and Rural Patterns of Development: 12 (Rural History in Europe) - Image 1

£63.64

Brepols Agricultural Specialisation and Rural Patterns of Development: 12 (Rural History in Europe)

Name: Agricultural Specialisation and Rural Patterns of Development: 12 (Rural History in Europe)
Brand: Brepols
Price: 63.64 GBP
Availability: InStock

Business & Economic History

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

£64 today · all-time low £64 (Jun 2026) · usually £64

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 78 days · 78 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 78 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £64 (50 days, 64.1%)

Price range: £64 - £69

Price levels: 2 different prices over 78 days

Description

In agricultural history, specialisation is usually considered as progress, turning peasants into market-orientated farmers and allowing them to escape from self-sufficiency. Recent developments in the field of productivist agriculture and the recent rise of alternative agriculture cast doubt on this conventional concept of agricultural specialisation. Several questions arise: Did specialisation necessarily mean that farms concentrated on a single product? Was it always a great step forward? Did it occur in the same form in earlier centuries as in contemporary economies? The chapters of this book draw attention to several factors relevant to processes of specialisation, such as markets, transport, and the natural environment. The contributions deal with regions in 10 countries of Europe, from Sweden to Spain and from England to Bulgaria, and with periods between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. They suggest several conclusions. Specialisation can take place in various forms, ranging from focussing on a single major cash crop to giving preference to a combination of products. This is true both at the level of an individual farm as at a regional level. Specialisation did not always improve the farmers' standard of living. And it was neither a linear nor an irreversible process. This can be observed in periods of war, but also in recent developments in post-communist countries.

Product Specifications

Brand: Brepols
Format: paperback
ASIN: 2503532284
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 January 2017
Listed Since: 20 July 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Brepols Agricultural Specialisation and Rural Patterns of Development: 12 (Rural History in Europe)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives (Progress in Precision Agriculture)

Stocks, seasons and sales: Food supply, storage and markets in Europe and the New World, c. 1600-2000: 17 (Comparative Rural History Network- Publications)

European Agricultural Policy: History and Analysis

The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture: An International Perspective: 7 (Studies in Productivity and Efficiency, 7)

Social Relations: Property and Power (Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000)

The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century

Rural protest groups and populist political parties

Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform Agriculture

Innovations in European Rural Landscapes

Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges: Transformation in Rural Space: 4 (Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, 4)

Agriculture and Public Goods: The Role of Collective Action

Agriculture and Public Goods: The Role of Collective Action

Agricultural Diversification for Sustainable Food Production (Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa)

Cropping Pattern And Crop Diversification: Cropping Pattern, Crop Diversification, Innovative Agriculture, Agricultural system, Agriculture, Composition of Crop

A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis

Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 10)

Economics of Sustainable Energy in Agriculture: 24 (Economy & Environment, 24)

Competitiveness of Global Agriculture: Policy Lessons for Food Security

Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy

God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (Past & Present Publications)

Eco-regional approaches for sustainable land use and food production: Proceedings of a symposium on eco-regional approaches in agricultural research, ... for Sustainable Agricultural Development)

The Manorial Economy in Early-Modern East-Central Europe: Origins, Development and Consequences: 470 (Variorum Collected Studies)

Privatization and Deregulation: Needed Policy Reforms for Agribusiness Development

Agrarian Change and Economic Development: The Historical Problems (Economic History)