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War, Agriculture, and Food
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ABSTRACT
Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to Hungary, during this crucial period, and identifies the common pressures to which they all responded and the features that were unique to individual countries. In particular, it examines the processes of agricultural development over western Europe as a whole, the impact of the war on international trading patterns, the relationships between states and farmers, and the changing identities of rural populations. It presents a bold attempt to write rural history on a European scale, and will be of interest not only to historians and historical geographers, but also to those interested in the historical background to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, to which the changes discussed here provided a dramatic prologue.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: The International Perspective
chapter 2|18 pages
Natura Non Fecit Saltus: The 1930s as the Discontinuity in the History of European Agriculture
part |2 pages
Part II: State Regulation and Agricultural Policy
chapter 4|20 pages
Paths to Productivism: Agricultural Regulation in the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Great Britain and German-Annexed Austria
chapter 5|21 pages
Spanish Agriculture, 1931–1955: Crisis, Wars, and New Policies in the Reshaping of Rural Society
chapter 6|15 pages
Wartime Agricultural Policy in Peacetime: A Case Study of Hungary, 1940–1956
part |2 pages
Part III: The State–Farmer Relationship
chapter 7|24 pages
From War Profi ts to Post-War Investments: How the German Occupation Improved Investments in Danish Agriculture in the Post-War Years
chapter 8|19 pages
Corporatism, Agricultural Modernization and War in Ireland and Switzerland, 1935–1955
chapter 9|16 pages
Farming, Favoured in Times of Fear: Swedish Agricultural Politics, 1935–1955
chapter 10|21 pages
The Social Impact of State Control of Agriculture in Britain, 1939–1955
part |2 pages
Part IV: Rural Identities