The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace
The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
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The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

by Tony Waters
The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace

by Tony Waters

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The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small conservative world in which they lived. This world organized around small-scale subsistence farming is ending as the ancient world of farmers has given away to that dominated by the modern marketplace. This book is about how the modern market world transformed these remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmers and forever altered life in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739158760
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/19/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Tony Waters is Department Chair and Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico.

Table of Contents


Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
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