The Agrarian History of Sweden by Myrdal, Janken -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction CHAPTER 1 - Early farming households

Archaeology and agrarian history Silent and different people The European background Complex change Changes to farms The household The division of labour Thinking agriculturally Ritual Life and death The eternal household Change

CHAPTER 2 - Agriculture in Sweden

The emergence of mixed farming Intensification and technological change, AD 200–600 Late Iron Age expansion, AD 700–1000

CHAPTER 3 - Farming and feudalism

New sources for a new era A feudal society Expansion and crisis, 1000–1450 Agricultural technology Livestock farming Farms and estates A typical farm The village community Taxation and the nobility Transformation in the Late Middle Ages State feudalism Sixteenth-century expansion, seventeenth-century stagnation Living standards and total production Small advances in agrarian technology Regional specialization–the example of oxen Grain production The rise of the war economy The collapse of the war economy

CHAPTER 4 - The agricultural revolution in Sweden

Geography and settlement Landholding Arable and livestock farming Peasant-farmer households and a diversified peasant-farmer economy Rural crafts and trade The peasant-farmers gain ground An expanding market economy The growth of the agrarian proletariat Land clearance and a food supply crisis, 1700–1800 Land reform The dawn of mechanization and increased demand for capital Liberal reform–and the state steps in Some conclusions

CHAPTER 5 - Agriculture in industrial society

Agriculture and the market in the industrial national economy Landownership and land use The ‘flight’ from agriculture Market signals and the transformation of cultivation Animal husbandry, animal production Technological change The men and women of agriculture Farmers, politics, and the organization of farmers’ interests

CHAPTER 6 - The tension between modernity and reality

A country of small farms The political route to modern agriculture Agriculture, pure and simple Town and country Neighbourhood co-operation redoubled The industrial ideals of the 1960s Families, businesses, and farmers The repression of women Town mores, country mores Between ideal and reality Stronger farming organizations Supra-national agricultural policy Small-scale and large-scale farming in a new age Combined contract farming Present-day neighbourhood co-operation Town and country Towards the future

CHAPTER 7 - Swedish agrarian history –the wider view

In Northern climes The continuous reconquest of northern Europe’s frontier European mixed farming The importance of implements Expansion and stagnation Social systems The role of dreams

Notes Statistical appendix Bibliography