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ToolsKander, Astrid and Warde, Paul (2011) Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe c.1815-1913: a new comparison. The Economic History Review, 64 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 1468-0289
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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 workers and animals per hectare, indicating the high efficiency of muscle power, rather than an abundance of such power. The higher efficiency was related to a specialization on less labour-intensive farming and a preference for horses over oxen.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 2 - zero hunger ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/zero_hunger |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:58 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2025 23:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10027 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00526.x |
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