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1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. FROM FORAGING TO FARMING: THE SO-CALLED "NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION"; CHAPTER 2. THE PRICE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE, 1209-1914; CHAPTER 3. THE GROWTH OF WORLD AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, 1800-1938; CHAPTER 4. THE GREAT DEPRESSION AS A CREDIT BOOM GONE WRONG; CHAPTER 5. THE LENGTH AND THE DEPTH OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; CHAPTER 6. THE DECLINE AND RISE OF INTERSTATE MIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES: EVIDENCE FROM THE IPUMS, 1850-1990 |
| Summary |
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 ev |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economic history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Field, Alexander J.
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Clark, Gregory, 1957-
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Sundstrom, William Andrew.
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| ISBN |
9780080498034 |
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0080498035 |
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