Agricultural Development in the World Periphery
Agricultural Development in the World Periphery

Author: Vicente Pinilla

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 3319660209

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This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and their interaction with the overall economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Looking at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the onset of modern economic growth – the book studies the relationship between agriculture and other economic sectors, exploring the use of resources (land, labour, capital) and the influence of institutional and technological factors in the long-run performance of agricultural activities. Pinilla and Willebald challenge the notion that agriculture played a negligible role in promoting economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the impulse towards industrialization in the developing world was more impactful.

The Cambridge Survey of World Migration
The Cambridge Survey of World Migration

Author: Robin Cohen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-11-02

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780521444057

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This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport systems stimulated immense and complex flows of labour migrants and skilled professionals. In ninety-five contributions, leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including migration patterns, the flights of refugees and illegal migration. Each entry is a substantive essay, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, tables, plates, maps and figures. As the most wide-ranging coverage of migration in a single volume, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration will be an indispensable reference tool for scholars and students in the field.

Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Author: Jorge Álvarez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 3031091981

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This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia. In particular, the book aims to deepen our understanding of why the two groups of countries have set out on radically different pathways with regard to industrialisation, long-term economic growth and income distribution. The book draws together the results of two separate projects focusing on this comparison. The first of these projects focuses on two of the so-called settler societies of South America, namely Uruguay and Argentina, sometimes called the Pampas region. Australia and New Zealand, two other settler societies, are also considered, adding a further contrasting effect. These settler societies are compared with Scandinavia, in its broad terms, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The second of these projects focuses on comparisons between Brazil and Sweden. Together, the two projects have engaged the minds of economic historians from Brazil, Uruguay and Sweden. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in economic history and economic development more broadly.

Uruguay
Uruguay

Author: Martin Henry John Finch

Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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Settler Capitalism
Settler Capitalism

Author: Donald Denoon

Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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