ABSTRACT
This book investigates the causes and effects of modernisation in rural regions of Britain and Ireland, continental Europe, the Americas, and Australasia between 1780 and 1914. In this period, the transformation of the world economy associated with the Industrial Revolution fuelled dramatic changes in the international countryside, as landowning elites, agricultural workers, and states adapted to the consequences of globalisation in a variety of ways. The chapters in this volume illustrate similarities, differences, and connections between the resulting manifestations of agrarian reform and resistance that spread throughout the Euro-American world and beyond during the long nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|14 pages
Agricultural modernisation during the long nineteenth century
part I|2 pages
Land and labour in the Americas
chapter 2|14 pages
Living with sugar
chapter 3|13 pages
“The General Strike”
chapter 4|16 pages
Agrarian modernisation in Chiapas, Mexico
part II|2 pages
Transatlantic agrarian comparisons and connections
chapter 5|10 pages
Agrarian resistance to modernisation and nation-building in the Confederate South and southern Italy
chapter 6|15 pages
Natural harmony and “true civilisation”
chapter 7|14 pages
Books and dirt in a transatlantic world
part III|2 pages
Agronomy within and beyond the Euro-American world
chapter 8|16 pages
Agricultural education in nineteenth-century Hungary
chapter 9|14 pages
From European roots to Australian wine
chapter 10|16 pages
From the Western to the Eastern model of cash crop production
part IV|2 pages
European rural politics and institutions