1st Edition

The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism Agrarian Politics in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, 1846-1919

By Niek Koning Copyright 1995
308 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

Agriculture is a highly sensitive industry. Throughout their history, national governments have intervened in and protected their agricultural sectors. The problems of competition in agriculture have been continually illustrated by disagreement over the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, more recently, by attempts to reform farming policy in the last round of the GATT... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Preface and acknowledgements, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 AGRARIAN CAPITALISM: GROWTH AND MISCARRIAGE, 3 MID-1840s TO c. 1873: THE LIBERAL YEARS, 4 c. 1873 TO LATE 1890s: THE WATERSHED, 5 LATE 1890s TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AGRICULTURE AND NATIONAL EFFICIENCY, 6 THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND BEYOND, 7 DISCUSSION, APPENDIX: Statistical data on agricultural development in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1850–1913, Notes, References, Index

Biography

Niek Koning