“A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change.”—The Geographical Journal
“A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change.”—The Geographical Journal
Tables and FiguresPrologue: An Ethnological Essay in Practical Reason11The Technology and Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices282The Farm-Family Household583Labor-Time Allocation1024Energy Inputs, Outputs, and Sustainable Systems1235Farm Size and Productivity1466Smallholder Property and Tenure1577Inequality, Stratification, and Polarization1898Chinese Smallholders2329Intensive Agriculture, Population Density, Markets, and the Smallholder Adaptation26110Peasant Farming and the Chayanov Model295Epilogue: Does the Smallholder Have a Future?320References Cited337Index379
\ From the Publisher"A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change."—The Geographical Journal\ \ \