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War, Agriculture, and Food : Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to Hungar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brassley, Paul
Otros Autores: Segers, Yves, Van Molle, Leen Van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in modern European history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction; Part I: The International Perspective; 2. Natura Non Fecit Saltus: The 1930s as the Discontinuity in the History of European Agriculture; 3. International Trade in Agricultural Products, 1935-1955; Part II: State Regulation and Agricultural Policy; 4. Paths to Productivism: Agricultural Regulation in the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Great Britain and German-Annexed Austria.
  • 5. Spanish Agriculture, 1931-1955: Crisis, Wars, and New Policies in the Reshaping of Rural Society6. Wartime Agricultural Policy in Peacetime: A Case Study of Hungary, 1940-1956; Part III: The State-Farmer Relationship; 7. From War Profits to Post-War Investments: How the German Occupation Improved Investments in Danish Agriculture in the Post-War Years; 8. Corporatism, Agricultural Modernization and War in Ireland and Switzerland, 1935-1955; 9. Farming, Favoured in Times of Fear: Swedish Agricultural Politics, 1935-1955.
  • 10. The Social Impact of State Control of Agriculture in Britain, 1939-1955Part IV: Rural Identities; 11. Change in the European Countryside: Peasants and Democracy in Germany, 1935-1955; 12. Heroes of the Reconstruction? Images of British Farmers in War and Peace; 13. Food Stocks, the Black Market, and Town and Country Tensions in France during Two World Wars and Beyond; 14. Conclusions; Index.