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Research in Economic History, Volume 22 - book by Field, A.J.;Clark, G.;Sundstrom, W.A.
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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 evidence is drawn largely from records of surviving hunter-gatherer societies.
Moving forward 10 millennia, Gregory Clark provides details of his construction of an annual price series for English net agricultural output from 1209 to 1914. Clark incorporates fresh archival material with existing published series, using consistent methods to build an
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction (A.J. Field). From foraging to farming: the so-called "Neolithic Revolution" (F.L. Pryor). The price history of English agriculture, 1500-1914 (G. Clark). The growth of world agricultural production, 1800-1938 (G. Federico). The great depression as a credit boom gone wrong (B. Eichengreen, K. Mitchener). The length and the depth of the great depression: An international comparison (J.B. Madsen). The decline and rise of interstate migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990 (J.L. Rosenbloom, W.A. Sundstrom).
AUTHORS: Field, A.J.;Clark, G.;Sundstrom, W.A.
PAGES: 332 pages
PUBLISH DATE: 01/08/2004
ISBN Number: 0-7623-1119-3
USA Book Price: $95
UK Book Price: £63.5
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