Frontier development : land, labour, and capital on the wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914
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Frontier development : land, labour, and capital on the wheatlands of Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914
(Oxford historical monographs)
Clarendon Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a scholarly and stimulating study of settlement and expansions on the frontier lands in Canada and Argentina during their `Golden Years' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges many of the assumptions made about the economic `success' of North America and the `failure' of Latin America.
Based on extensive primary research in Argentina, Canada, and Britain, Dr Adelman's book points to the central importance of property relations in economic history. The distribution, control, and use of land, labour, and capital shaped these emerging economies. At the centre of the analysis is the development of family farming in Canada, and large estates in Argentina. Each system presented opportunities and posed costs - Argentine estates proving more efficient than hitherto argueed, while
Canadian farms involved high social and economic costs. The approach taken here suggests directions for future research for comparative historians.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the dynamics of frontier development. Part 1 Land use and distribution on the frontier: land use and distribution on the prairies - the political economy of settlement, the land market and speculation, land distribution, land use
- land use and distribution on the Pampas - the political economy of settlement, land use, the land market and speculation, land distribution. Part 2 Labour on the frontier: labour on the Pampas - immigration policy, immigration 1890-1914, seasonal labour, tenancy
- labour on the prairies - immigration policy, immigration 1890-1914, the hired hand, tenancy. Part 3 Capital formation on the frontier: agricultural finance on the frontier - agricultural finance on the Pampas, agricultural finance on the prairies, rural finance - conclusion
- technical change on the frontier - machinery on the prairies, machinery on the Pampas
- conclusion - the frontier legacy. Appendices: the 1895 Argentine national census
- probate records from the archives of the Palace of Justice in Buenos Aires
- probate records from the Regional Courthouse in Regina.
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