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Author: Miquel Barceló Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047404033 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 333
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The Register of Laws of the Arabian Gulf offers a single, comprehensive source of key information in the field. No similar work exists in the English language. Drawing on original Arabic sources - invariably very difficult to find either individually or in series - this major loose-leaf work provides a complete database of all laws and regulations originating in each country of the Arabian Gulf.
Author: Miquel Barceló Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047404033 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 333
Book Description
The Register of Laws of the Arabian Gulf offers a single, comprehensive source of key information in the field. No similar work exists in the English language. Drawing on original Arabic sources - invariably very difficult to find either individually or in series - this major loose-leaf work provides a complete database of all laws and regulations originating in each country of the Arabian Gulf.
Author: Martin Bakers Publisher: Cambridge Stanford Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 99
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In the Middle Ages agriculture underwent many changes. The nobles and the clergy were considered the most important members of the feudal society. However, they were never the majority: in the Middle Ages, almost all people were peasants. Not all farmers had the same category and social status. Many of them were free men. Among these, some were small landowners who lived on their own land, while others, the settlers, leased the feudal lord a small plot of land.
Author: Georges Duby Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812216745 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 634
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"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--
Author: David Stone Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191514357 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
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This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as in modern times. Investigating agricultural mentalities first at a local level and then for England as a whole, Dr Stone argues that human action shaped the course of the rural economy to a much greater extent than has hitherto been appreciated, and challenges the commonly held view that the medieval period was dominated by ecological and economic crises. Focusing in particular on responses to commercial forces and the adoption of agricultural technology, this book has significant implications for our understanding of agricultural development throughout the last thousand years.
Author: Christopher Isett Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442209682 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 423
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This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.
Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000941639 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture. The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view. Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution', than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.
Author: Miquel Barceló
Author: Miquel Barceló
Author: Martin Bakers
Author: Witold Kula
Author: John E. Martin
Author: Georges Duby
Author: Thomas Jones (junior (of Sheffield))
Author: David Stone
Author: Christopher Isett
Author: Edwin Hartzel Styron
Author: Bruce M.S. Campbell