Books in the Rural Worlds series

This edited collection of essays shows how new electrical technology changed rural life in Britain in the twentieth century, drawing comparisons with other countries and periods. It is concerned not only with the changing availability and different forms of electrical supplies to various parts of the country, but also with the effects of electrification on domestic and economic life and on rural culture.

Brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s.

Describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. In this book, three main forms of economic observation - enquiries, statistics, and farm surveys - are investigated.