Table of Contents:
“…Settled agriculture: the ancient origins of community, state, and empire -- From antiquity to the eve of agrarian capitalism: peasants and dynastic states -- Agrarian capitalism in the early modern world: divergence in Eurasia -- Malthusian limits in the early modern world: peasants and markets -- The new world: planters, slaves, and sugar -- American farming: Agrarian roots of U.S. capitalism -- New imperialism: colonial agriculture in the age of capitalism -- Socialist agriculture: collectivization in three countries -- Late development: state-led agrarian change after World War II -- Corporate agriculture: comparing Brazil and the United States.…”