Seeds of Transition
Seeds of Transition

Author: J. S. C. Wiskerke

Publisher: Van Gorcum Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9789023239888

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Agriculture is confronted with changing societal expectations and demands regarding its role in food production and in the countryside. Complying with these expectations and demands will require a comprehensive, far-reaching and therefore far from easy and long-lasting transition of agriculture. This books seeks to explore the seeds of this transition by describing and analysing the production of promosing novelties in relation to to the dominant regime. On a theoretical level this books aims at the integration of hitherto largely disconneted disciplines and bodies of literature.

Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa

Author: Robert H. Bates

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1987-04-20

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780520060142

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The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.

China's Gentry
China's Gentry

Author: Hsiao-tung Fei

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1980-09-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0226239578

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These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. "The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public."—Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist

A Series of Essays on Agriculture & Rural Affairs; In Forty-Seven Numbers
A Series of Essays on Agriculture & Rural Affairs; In Forty-Seven Numbers

Author: Agricola

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-05

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781355556473

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