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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dulce Freire , Pedro LainsPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 7 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.686kg ISBN: 9789004311534ISBN 10: 900431153 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 08 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Maps, Tables and Graphs Notes on the Contributors Introduction Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains Part I - State formation and Malthusian growth Chapter 1 - The Reconquista and its legacy, 1000-1348 Antonio Henriques Introduction The Reconquista Institutional developments Cities, markets and agrotowns Production and productivity Conclusion Chapter 2 - The Black Death and recovery, 1348-1500 Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues Introduction Plague, war and demographic decline The reversal of fortunes Commercialization The impact of the overseas expansion Conclusion Part II - New frontiers, crisis and growth Chapter 3 - Coping with Europe and the Empire, 1500-1620 Susana Munch Miranda Introduction Population pressure and urban expansion Institutional framework and output cycles The landscape and the production structure The marketplace Conclusion Chapter 4 - Conflict and decline, 1620-1703 Margarida Sobral Neto Introduction Domestic settlements and emigration Colonial trade Subsistence farming and the market Output cycles Conclusion Chapter 5 - Extensive growth and market expansion, 1703-1820 Jose Vicente Serrao Introduction The rural landscape The macroeconomic context Grain issues Property rights Conclusion Chapter 6 - Gross agricultural output: a quantitative, unified perspective, 1500-1850 Jaime Reis Introduction Method and data Trend, cycles and short term fluctuations Are the results consistent? Conclusion Part III - Growth, structural change and economic policy Chapter 7 - Growth and structural change, 1820-1929 Amelia Branco and Ester G. Silva Introduction Land, output and productivity Institutional change Agrarian innovation Conclusion Chapter 8 - Economic policy, growth and the demise, 1929-2000 Luciano Amaral and Dulce Freire Introduction Quantitative evolution Protectionism State and corporatist organizations The Common Agricultural Policy Conclusion Part IV - Lessons from the second Millennium Chapter 9 - Agriculture and economic development on the European frontier, 1000-2000 Pedro Lains Introduction Lessons from the European frontier Convergence and divergence in European agriculture Conclusion Appendix - Maps and data for climate, relief, administrative divisions, urbanization, agricultural output and infrastructures in Portugal, 1000-2000 IndexReviewsA pioneering collaborative effort, based largely on a rich but 'hidden' literature in Portuguese. It opens the distinctive and fascinating history of Portuguese agriculture over a millennium to the outside world. - Cormac O' Grada, University College Dublin Author InformationDulce Freire, PhD (2008) in Contemporary History (FCSH-UNL), is research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She works in rural and agricultural history in Portuguese and Iberian contexts. She is coordinator of the FCT research project: Portuguese agriculture: food, development and sustainability, 1870-2010 , and chair of the Rural History Network/ESSHC-IISG. Among her publications are To Produce and To Drink. The wine issue in the Estado Novo, 2010 and Rural world: transformation and resistance in the Iberian Peninsula (20th Century), 2004. Pedro Lains, PhD (1992) in History (European University Institute, Florence), is research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He researches mainly in Economic History of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Among his publications are Historia da Caixa Geral de Depositos, 1876-2010, 2011 and Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870, 2008. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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