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Authors: Robert McC Netting
ISBN-13: 9780804721028, ISBN-10: 0804721025
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: 1

Author Biography: Robert McC Netting

Book Synopsis

“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 Figures
	Prologue: An Ethnological Essay in Practical Reason	1
1	The Technology and Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices	28
2	The Farm-Family Household	58
3	Labor-Time Allocation	102
4	Energy Inputs, Outputs, and Sustainable Systems	123
5	Farm Size and Productivity	146
6	Smallholder Property and Tenure	157
7	Inequality, Stratification, and Polarization	189
8	Chinese Smallholders	232
9	Intensive Agriculture, Population Density, Markets, and the Smallholder Adaptation	261
10	Peasant Farming and the Chayanov Model	295
	Epilogue: Does the Smallholder Have a Future?	320
	References Cited	337
	Index	379

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