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... the importance of chattel credit in the agricultural mechanization that occurred during these years. This type of credit involved smaller principal sums than land credit but was a significant element in the business and commercial processes of the town and although more costly than land credit the difference...

...Phillipp Schofield Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England . By Chris Briggs . Oxford : British Academy , 2009 . 240 pp., $100.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726441-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History Winter timely reminder...

... ; T. Roy Reid , “Public Assistance to Low-Income Farmers of the South,” Journal of Farm Economics 21 ( Feb. 1939 ): 193 – 94 . Client Failures and Supervised Credit in the Farm Security Administration CHARLES KENNETH ROBERTS The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was the New Deal s...

...Catherine Albrecht Abstract Rural credit in the Bohemian crown lands of the Habsburg monarchy became available on a wide scale only after the abolition of serfdom in 1848. Although organized to serve municipal interests, savings banks and Schulze-Delitzsch credit cooperatives initially provided...

...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 repudiated the creed of laissez-faire by declaring that government had a responsibility to assist ordinary citizens economically. Farmers had made affordable credit a political issue well before the Panic of 1907 thrust banking reform...

... of the product by shares between landlord and tenant has been worked out by custom and law for cotton." Indeed, there was a credit system in place that facilitated cotton production, a system that dated back to Reconstruction. Lamenting that "no generally accepted system of share cropping has been worked out...

...Nicole Mottier Abstract This article examines the creation and operation of the Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal (National Bank of Ejidal Credit), a bank that was founded to lend to ejidatarios, a certain type of Mexican peasant. The first part of this article argues that Manuel Gómez Morín...

... the significance of differences between the credit-dependent sharecropping system prevalent in cotton regions and the cash wages paid to sugar workers—distinctions that have often been intentionally blurred in recent historiography. © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 NOTES 1. While taking...

...Robert S. Davis Abstract The story of the creation of Cullman County in the post Civil War South has been the subject of propaganda and myth that has gone far beyond Alabama. German immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded an agricultural community that traditional accounts credit with bringing...

.... It is also a 123 Agricultural History Winter timely reminder of the trials of the lower ranks of the agrarian community across the centuries, written with enthusiasm and passion. Nigel Goose University of Hertfordshire Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England. By Chris Briggs. Oxford: British...

... / Agricultural History system of credit. A second is that there is no longer a compelling justification for the federal government to intervene in credit markets on behalf of agriculture. The collection begins with two essays that describe the "forces induc- ing change." These include, first, the closer linkages...

... nineteenth century) and an indepen dent legal historian with three previous books to his credit. Kilbourne's Debt, InvestmenStl,aves (1995)was an importanctontributiontoeconomic history, as the firstsystematic study of the role of slave property in credit relations.In SlaveAgricultureand FinancialMarkets...

...Winifred B. Rothenberg Book Reviews / 101 able light. They also argue, however, that since agriculture now has much easier access to credit and, since there are now fewer differences between the farm and nonfarm economies, the need no longer exists for an active governmental role in supplying...

... their immediate farming needs. The devices they developed were indeed innovative, even if they were not wholly original, officially recognized, or commercially valuable. Beyond the economic and political circumstances of the Jim Crow era that limited Black inventors’ access to credit, white supremacy and anti...

...Douglas Helms Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 The Furrow and Us: Essays on Soil and Sentiment . Walter Thomas Jack . 2008 Book Reviews on the credit systemwith the opening of theBUS Natchez Branch in 1831 and its closure in 1836. The study is best classified...

... and transformed the labor market within their ranks by relyingupon journeymen-wage laborers who could never expect to rise to the level of master. A great deal of themeat arriving in Paris entered on the hoof, and the Crown consolidated and reorganized cattle markets, including the hitherto informal credit...

... on establishing cooperatives, credit unions, and other noncapitalist enterprises. The search for alternative development practices must involve rethinking surplus distribution in communities and acknowledging the impact of globalization throughout the region, Fickey and samers continue. appalachian studies...

... provided to the owners of an urban boarding house, much of the pressure leading to the law in Minnesota came from the Farmers Holiday Association and others fighting widespread farm foreclosures dating back to the rural credit crisis of the 1920s. Fliter and Hoff devote a full chapter to the importance...

.... is a practicing attorney (in a Clinton, Louisiana, family firm that dates from the early nineteenth century) and an indepen dent legal historian with three previous books to his credit. Kilbourne's Debt, InvestmenStl,aves (1995)was an importanctontributiontoeconomic history, as the firstsystematic study...

... transactions closely mirrored those of other southern states as well as the broader national rural milieu during the Gilded Age. Community merchants played a foundational role in establishing the early credit lines that soon congealed into a stable and profitable national consumer marketplace. While it would...