New Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany: Recent Research on the History of German Agriculture

Finlay, Mark R.

doi:10.1525/ah.2001.75.3.279

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“…They argue that East Elbian agricultural growth accelerated long before the agrarian reforms and that the reforms had no sizeable impact on agricultural growth as it was demand-driven, resulting from population growth and the expansion of employment outside agriculture. 37 Estonian historiography has traditionally highlighted the introduction of peasant land ownership, land consolidation, and increasing participation in the market production as essential preconditions for agricultural growth. 38 In times of labour rents, peasants' market production was very limited.…”

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Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913

Lust

2023

Rural History

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The article addresses the issue of wealth accumulation by peasant farmers in the post-emancipation era in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia. The Baltic emancipation schemes stand out as the least beneficial for peasants as they set neither time limits nor land price levels, and the state government did not provide any credit to the purchasers of farms. However, in northern Livonia the nominal value of peasant farmers’ wealth grew as much as tenfold from 1850 to 1913. The study reveals that the advantages and disadvantages of high farm purchase prices should be considered in combination with other factors affecting agricultural growth. In the Baltic context, the large size of the farms, land consolidation, well-developed infrastructure, and the commercialisation of production helped the farm owners amass a relatively large amount of wealth within a generation. Technological improvement also contributed to the rise in productivity and wealth.

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Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913

Lust

2023

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“…Harnisch 1989a. For a survey of the new research, see Kaak 1999, Finlay 2001, 282-284, Cerman 2012 As the latest research, see Eddie 2013. 7.…”

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Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

2021

Social Science Japan Journal

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“…Atwater participated in Carl von Voit's laboratory work on nutrition in Munich and became an ardent promotor of the German system of agricultural experiment stations (Williams 2019). He became the director of Connecticut's agricultural experiment station and, after the Hatch Act passed Congress in 1887, of the Federal system of agricultural experiment stations (Finlay 1988).…”

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Crossing the doorsteps for social reform: The social crusades of Florence Kelley and Ellen Richards

Soudan,

Philippy,

Maas

2021

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ArgumentThis paper contrasts the research strategies of two women reformers, Florence Kelley and Ellen Swallow Richards, which entailed different strategies of social reform. In the early 1890s, social activist Florence Kelley used the social survey as a weapon for legal reform of the working conditions of women and children in Chicago’s sweatshop system. Kelley’s case shows that her surveys were most effective as “grounded” knowledge, rooted in a local community with which she was well acquainted. Her social survey, re-enacted by lawmakers and the press, provided the evidence that moved her target audience to legal action. Chemist and propagator of the Home Economics Movement Ellen Richards situated the social problem, and hence its solution, not in exploitative working conditions, but in the inefficient and wasteful usage of available resources by the poor. Laboratory work, she argued, would enable the development of optimal standards, and educational programs should bring these standards to the household by means of models and exhibits. With this aim, she constructed public spaces that she ran as food laboratories and sanitary experiments. Kelley and Richards thus crossed the doorsteps of the household in very different ways. While Florence Kelley entered the household to change the living and working conditions of the poor by changing the law, Richards flipped the household inside out by bringing women into hybrid public laboratory spaces to change their behavior by experiment and instruction.

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New Sources, New Theses, and New Organizations in the New Germany: Recent Research on the History of German Agriculture

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913

Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913

Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

Crossing the doorsteps for social reform: The social crusades of Florence Kelley and Ellen Richards

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