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Beschreibung
This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
Über den Autor
Tony Waters is Department Chair and Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 The Persistence of Subsistence: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Chapter 2 Why Subsistence Peasants Are Important
Chapter 3 Theoretical Overview: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
Chapter 4 Pre-industrial Scotland, or How Adam Smith Got Workers into His Pin Factory
Part 5 The Persistence of the Subsistence Peasant from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 6 America's Triumphant Subsistence Peasantry 1620-1820, or How Daniel Boone Ran from Ben Franklin's Shopkeepers
Chapter 7 Squatting, Pre-emption, and Nowhere Left to Run: An Ascendant Market Catches Pa Ingalls
Chapter 8 Modern Tanzania and the Long Triumph of Subsistence Farmers
Chapter 9 The Persistent Modern Tanzanian Subsistent Peasant
Part 10 Conclusions: Challenging Development Orthodoxies
Chapter 11 Theoretical Implications: Understanding Economic Growth as a Risky and Recurrent Process
Chapter 12 Modern Development and Subsistence Peasantry

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780739128367
ISBN-10: 0739128361
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Waters, Tony
Hersteller: Lexington Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Tony Waters
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2008
Gewicht: 0,446 kg
Artikel-ID: 101818048