ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the 1830s there were wide differences between the grain prices of the various European countries. Danish domestic prices were the lowest, English the highest. Somewhere between came French and German grain prices. In the course of the next five decades the balance changed to the point where Danish, German and French prices rose while English prices sank (see figure 68). These movements must be borne in mind if one seeks to understand the complaints of the English landlords and farmers. While on the continent, after the agrarian depression of the 1820s, the agrarian upswing that had begun in the eighteenth century continued with undiminished vigour, in England parliament was forming a Select Committee to inquire into agricultural distress.
