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Development as History. A Review Article

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BlumJerome, The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. 505 pp.
HirashimaShigemochi, The Structure of Disparity in Developing Agriculture. A Case Study of the Pakistan Punjab. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1978.138 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Folke Dovring
Folke Dovring
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University of Illionis
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Agricultural Labor and Capitalism
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1979, pp. 567 - 571
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1979

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1 See, among others, Thrupp, Sylvia L., “Tradition and Development: A Choice of Views”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 6:1 (10 1963), 84–92CrossRefGoogle Scholar (review article). Cf. also Hirashima, , p. 33,Google Scholar quoting a British commission of 1928 affirming the competence of traditional peasant farmers: further increases in yields would have to await scientific progress.

2 O'Brien, P. K., Heath, D. and Keyder, C., “Agricultural efficiency in Britain and France, 1815–1914”, The Journal of European Economic History, 6:2 (Fall 1977), 339–91;Google Scholar and Ruttan, Vernon W., “Structural retardation and the modernization of French agriculture: A skeptical view,” The Journal of Economic History, 38:3 (09 1978), 714–28.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Cf. Dovring, Folke, “Eighteenth-century changes in European agriculture: A comment,” Agricultural History, 43:1 (01 1969), 181–86.Google Scholar