Five centuries of farming a short history of Dutch agriculture, 1500-2000
Five centuries of farming: a short history of Dutch agriculture, 1500-2000

Where the lower reaches of the rivers Rijn, Maas and Schelde have passed through the Northwest-European plain to finally flow out into the North Sea, a unique country of towns had come about during the Late Middle Ages. Since then, due to its natural and central location, this country, the Netherlan...

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1. Verfasser: Bieleman, Jan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2010
Schriftenreihe:Mansholt publication series v. 8
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1500-2000
History / fast / (OCoLC)fst01411628
Agriculture / fast / (OCoLC)fst00801355
Agriculture / Economic aspects / fast / (OCoLC)fst00801415
Agriculture > Netherlands > History
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Netherlands > History
Landwirtschaft
Netherlands / fast / (OCoLC)fst01204034
Niederlande
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Zusammenfassung:Where the lower reaches of the rivers Rijn, Maas and Schelde have passed through the Northwest-European plain to finally flow out into the North Sea, a unique country of towns had come about during the Late Middle Ages. Since then, due to its natural and central location, this country, the Netherlands, has turned into a true crossroads of European trade connections between east and west, north and south. A highly urbanised country emerged and as the urban economies prospered they have had a great impact on the surrounding countryside. This in turn has affected the rural communities and has stimulated all kinds of agrarian activities. Highly productive agribusiness complexes have been the result. Today experts rank Dutch agriculture and horticulture as one of the most productive in the world. Milk production per cow and arable farming and horticulture, productivity per man-hour is amongst the highest known. This book is meant to give an overview of
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340) and index
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- A framework for interpretation -- Agricultural history -- The nature of farming -- Malthus vs. Boserup -- The pace of change or the �secular trend� -- Spatial diversity in farming: the Von Th�nen model -- Agricultural districts -- The structure of the book -- Part 1 � The period 1500-1650 -- Expanding diversity -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Farming in the coastal provinces -- Arable (and mixed) farming on the marine clay soils -- Livestock farming -- Horticulture -- The �great rebuilding�
1.3. Farming in the interior provincesPart 2 � The period 1650-1850 -- Contraction and expansion -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Arable (and mixed) farming in the marine clay districts -- 2.3. Mixed farming in the river clay district and in the loess district of Zuid-Limburg -- 2.4. Livestock farming -- 2.5. Mixed farming in the sandy soil districts -- Part 3 � The period 1850-1950 -- New markets, new opportunities -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. �Den Haag� and the farmer: government and agricultural organisations
3.3. Arable (and mixed) farming in the marine clay districts3.4. Mixed farming in the riverclay district and in the loess district of Zuid-Limburg -- 3.5. Livestock farming -- 3.6. Mixed farming in the sandy soil districts -- 3.7. The Veenkoloniñn � arable farming on former peat soils -- 3.8. Horticulture -- Part 4 � The period 1950-2000 -- Farming becomes agri-business -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Arable farming -- Wheat cultivation -- Sugar beet cultivation -- Potato cultivation -- Increasing surpluses -- 4.3. Livestock farming -- Pig farming
Poultry farmingDairy farming -- 4.4. Horticulture -- Epilogue -- Five centuries of farming � some outlines -- Annexes -- Literature -- List of tables -- Table 1.1. The index of the prices of rye and butter in Utrecht and of beef in Leiden, in the period 1500-16491. -- Table 1.2. The average size of cattle herds in parts of Friesland and Holland, 1550-1723. -- Table 1.3. The number of farmers according to their number of (adult) horses in 16 parishes in the province of Drenthe, in 1672; Drenthe totalled as many as 37 parishes
Table 1.4a. Farmers in three parishes in the Veluwe district according to their number of (adult) horses, in 1526 and 1650.Table 1.4b. Farmers in the Veluwe district according to their number of (adult) horses, in 1526 and 1807. -- Table 1.5. Farmers according to their number of (adult) horses in Overijssel (except for the towns), in 1602. -- Table 1.6. The area of man-made plaggenbodems in relation to the total area of sandy soils, in 6 provinces. -- Table 2.1. Nitrogen supply in north-western European arable farming, in kg/ha of arable land
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (367 Seiten) Illustrationen, maps
ISBN:908686693X
9789086866939
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-693-9

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