An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier by Freire, Dulce

An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004311534)

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An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier by Freire, Dulce

An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier

$181.00
An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier by Freire, Dulce

An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier

$181.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book follows the renovation of European economic history towards a more unified interpretation of sources of growth and stagnation. To better understand the diversity of patterns of growth, we need to look beyond the study of the industrialization of the core economies, and explore the centuries before it occurred. Portuguese agriculture was hardly ever at the European productivity and technological forefront and the distance from it varied substantially across the second Millennium. Yet if we look at the periods of the Christian Reconquista, the recovery from the Black Death, the response to the globalization of the Renaissance, to the eighteenth century economic enlightenment, or to nineteenth century industrialization, we may conclude that agriculture in this country of the European periphery was often adaptive and dynamic. The fact that economic backwardness was not overcome by the end of the period is no longer the most relevant aspect of that story.

Contributors are: Luciano Amaral, Amélia Branco, Dulce Freire, António Henriques, Pedro Lains, Susana Münch Miranda, Margarida Sobral Neto, Jaime Reis, Ana Maria Rodrigues, José Vicente Serrão and Ester G. Silva.

Author: Dulce Freire
ISBN-10: 900431153X
ISBN-13: 9789004311534
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2016
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
By Dulce Freire
By Dulce Freire
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Dulce 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 História da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, 1876-2010, 2011 and Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870, 2008.

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