Agriculture in capitalist Europe, 1945-1960 : from food shortages to food surpluses /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Martiin, Carin (Editor), Pan-Montojo, Juan (Editor), Brassley, Paul, 1946- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Series:	Rural worlds.
Subjects:	Agriculture and state > Europe > History > 20th century. Food supply > Europe > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
European agriculture 1945-1960 : an introduction / Paul Brassley, Carin Martiin and Juan Pan-Montojo
International politics
International institutions and European agriculture : from the IIA to the FAO / Juan Pan-Montojo
Political stability, modernization and reforms during the first years of the Cold War / Emanuele Bernardi
International agricultural markets after the war, 1945-1960 / Ángel Luis Gonzalez, Vicente Pinilla and Raúl Serrano
Market regulation and the motives behind it
The policy of self-sufficiency and its impact upon rural modernization in Greece, 1928-1960 / Socrates D. Petmezas
British agriculture in transition : food shortages to food surpluses, 1947-1957 / John Martin
From food surplus to even greater food surplus : agrarian politics and prices in Denmark, 1945-1962 / Thomas Christiansen
Technical change
Mechanisation and motorisation : natural resources, knowledge, politics and technology in 19/20th centuries agriculture / Juri Auderset and Peter Moser
Technology policies in dictatorial contexts : Spain and Portugal / Daniel Lanero and Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto
Tractorization : France 1946-1955 / Laurent Herment
Rural society and structural policy
Structural policy and the state : changing agricultural society in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1945-1960 / Erwin H. Karel and Yves Segers
From food scarcity to overproduction : saving the German peasant during the miracle years / Gesine Gerhard
Farm labour in the urban-industrial Swedish state / Carin Martiin
Similar means to secure postwar food supplies across Western Europe : a conclusion / Juan Pan-Montojo, Carin Martiin and Paul Brassley.