The Economic history review.
Publisher:
Basil Blackwell.
Frequency: Quarterly
Country: England
Language: English
Author(s):
Economic History Society.
Start Year:1927 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0013-0117 (Print) 1468-0289 (Electronic) 0013-0117 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 100967146 |
| (OCoLC): | 01883400 |
| LCCN: | 29011002 |
Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815–1913: a new comparison. This article explores the proposition that a reason for high agricultural productivity in the early nineteenth century was relatively high energy availability from draught animals. The article is based on the collection of extensive new data indicating different trends in draught power availability and the efficiency of its use in different countries of Europe. This article shows that the proposition does not hold, and demonstrates that, although towards the end of the nineteenth century England had relatively high numbers of draught animals per agricultural worker, it also had low number of w...