Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
Routledge Library Editions: Rural History

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-14

Total Pages: 4340

ISBN-13: 1351624814

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The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.

The Modernization of Rural France
The Modernization of Rural France

Author: Roger Price

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1351695096

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This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data.