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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
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2006
Summary
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
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Edition
1/2006
Copyright Year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0768-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5876-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
257
Product Type
Monograph
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List of Figures, Tables, Photos and Drawings No access
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Acknowledgements No access
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1—Why Subsistence Peasants are Important No access
2—Theoretical Overview: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace No access
3—Pre-industrial Scotland, or How Adam Smith Got Workers into His Pin Factory No access
4—America's Triumphant Subsistence Peasantry 1620-1820, or How Daniel Boone Ran from Ben Franklin's Shopkeepers No access
5—Squatting, Pre-emption, and Nowhere Left to Run: An Ascendant Market Catches Pa Ingalls No access
6—Modem Tanzania and the Long Triumph of Subsistence Farmers No access
7—The Persistent Modem Tanzanian Subsistence Peasant No access
8—Theoretical Implications: Understanding Economic Growth as a Risky and Recurrent Process No access
9—Modern Development and the Subsistence Peasantry No access
