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Animal Husbandry in Hungary in the 19th-20th Centuries
The Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe
Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520076402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest of the world except for that unique part of the West which has given us a false model of what was "normal," Eastern Europe developed slowly. The weight of established class relations, geography, lack of technological innovation, and wars kept the area from growing richer. In the nineteenth century the West exerted a powerful influence, but it was political more than economic. Nationalism and the creation of newly independent aspiring nation-states then began to shape national economies, often in unfavorable ways. One of this book's most important lessons is that while economics may limit the freedom of action of political players, it does not determine political outcomes. The authors offer no simple explanations but rather a theoretically complex synthesis that demonstrates the interaction of politics and economics.
Hungarian Research Institute for Animal Husbandry Proceedings
Author: Hungarian research institute for animal husbandry
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proceedings of the Hungarian Research Institute for Animal Husbandry
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Edward John T. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 994
ISBN-13: 9780521329262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
Feeding the World
Author: Giovanni Federico
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-12-16
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1400837723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultural performance: environment, accumulation of inputs, technical progress, institutional change, commercialization, agricultural policies, and more. The last chapter discusses the contribution of agriculture to modern economic growth. The book is global in its reach and analysis, and represents a grand synthesis of an enormous topic.
The Uses of Life
Author: Robert Bud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-05-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521476997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book shows, for the first time, how modern biotechnology grew out of this century's hopes for a new relationship between biology and engineering. Long before recombinant DNA, these promised a new kind of technology. By exploring the rich and surprisingly overlooked complex of prophesies, industrial and scientific development and government programs, the book sheds new light on the expectations now held for biotechnology. A world-wide view, covering developments, not just in America but also in Europe and Japan, uncovers surprising links. This makes possible a coherent story to supersede the historical notes which have been available until now. This first history of biotechnology provides a readable and challenging account that will appeal to anyone interested in the development of this key component of modern industry.
Real Wages in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
