Agriculture and nourishment are, from early times and up to now, crucial elements in the development of market systems. Shortage and surplus gave shape to different forms of exchange and sale, to the
This eleventh in the Corn series studying North Sea area rural history began at a conference held at Leuven in 2003. The articles discuss the changes in the ways in which food production has changed i
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 year