Chapter 1. Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A General Overview
Vicente Pinilla (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Henry Willebald (Universidad de la Republica)
Chapter 2. Between the Engine and the Fifth Wheel: An Analytical Survey of the Shifting Roles of Agriculture in Development Theory
Martin Anderson (Lund University) and Emelie Rohne Till (Lund University)
Chapter 3. The World Periphery in Global Agricultural and Food Trade, 1900-2000
Gema Aparicio (Independent researcher), Ángel Luis González-Esteban (Universidad de Burgos), Vicente Pinilla (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Raúl Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Chapter 4. Plantations and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century: The End of an Era?
Derek Byerlee (Georgetown University) and P.K. Viswanathan (Amrita University)
Chapter 5. Ghana's Recurrent Miracle: Cocoa Cycles and Deficient Structural Change
Christer Gunnarsson (Lund University)
Chapter 6. Initial Conditions and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1915-2015
Ellen Hillbom (Lund University) and Samuel Jenkin (Lund University)
Chapter 7. Maize and Gold: South African Agriculture's Transition from Suppression to Support, 1886-1948
Jan Greyling (Stellenbosch University) and Nick Vink (Stellenbosch University)
Chapter 8. The Agriculture-Macroeconomy Growth Link in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, 1900-2000 Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)
Chapter 9. Southeast Asian Agricultural Growth, 1930-2010
Anne Booth (University of London)
Chapter 10. The Two Rice Deltas of Vietnam: A Century of Failure and Success Montserrat López Jerez (Lund University)
Chapter 11. Transforming Indonesia: Structural Change from a Regional Perspective, 1968-2010
Tobias Axelsson (Lund University) and Andres Palacio (Lund University)
Chapter 12. Perspectives on Agricultural and Grain Output Growth in China from the 19th Century to the Present Day
Robert Ash (University of London), Jun Du (National University of Singapore) and Cheng King (South China University of Technology and National University of Singapore)
Chapter 13. The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs? Agricultural Development in Latin America in the 20th Century
Miguel Martín-Retortillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Vicente Pinilla (Universidad de Zaragoza), Jackeline Velazco (Pontificia Universidad de Perú) and Henry Willebald (Universidad de la Republica) Chapter 14. Agricultural Development in Australia, 1845-2015
Kym Anderson (Adelaide University)
Chapter 15. From Backwardness to Global Agricultural Powerhouse: The Transition of Brazilian Agriculture
Bernardo Mueller and Charles Mueller (Universidade de Brasília)
Chapter 16. Development Models, Agricultural Policies and Agricultural Growth: Peru, 1950-2010
Jackeline Velazco (Pontifica Universidad del Perú) and Vicente Pinilla (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Chapter 17. Land Frontier Expansion in Settler Economies, 1830-1950: Was it a Ricardian Process? Henry Willebald (Universidad de la Republica) and Javier Juambeltz (Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay)
Chapter 18. Technological Change and Productivity Growth in the Agrarian Systems of New Zealand and Uruguay, 1870-2010
Jorge Álvarez Scanniello (Universidad de la Republica)
About the Author: Vicente Pinilla is Professor in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has taught economic history since 1986 and held appointments at the University of Bristol, UK, London School of Economics, UK, University of California at Davis, US, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Henry Willebald is Professor in Development Economics and Economic History at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Barcelona, Spain, University of Zaragoza, Spain, and Groningen University, The Netherlands. He was formerly Director of Economic Research in Faculty of Economics, University of the Republic, Uruguay, and President of the Uruguayan Economic History Association.