Agriculture in capitalist Europe, 1945-1960 : from food shortages to food surpluses / edited by Carin Martiin, Juan Pan-Montojo and Paul Brassley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- European agriculture 1945-1960 : an introduction / Paul Brassley, Carin Martiin and Juan Pan-Montojo -- International politics -- International institutions and European agriculture : from the IIA to the FAO / Juan Pan-Montojo -- Political stability, modernization and reforms during the first years of the Cold War / Emanuele Bernardi -- International agricultural markets after the war, 1945-1960 / �Angel Luis Gonzalez, Vicente Pinilla and Ra�ul Serrano -- Market regulation and the motives behind it -- The policy of self-sufficiency and its impact upon rural modernization in Greece, 1928-1960 / Socrates D. Petmezas -- British agriculture in transition : food shortages to food surpluses, 1947-1957 / John Martin -- From food surplus to even greater food surplus : agrarian politics and prices in Denmark, 1945-1962 / Thomas Christiansen -- Technical change -- Mechanisation and motorisation : natural resources, knowledge, politics and technology in 19/20th centuries agriculture / Juri Auderset and Peter Moser -- Technology policies in dictatorial contexts : Spain and Portugal / Daniel Lanero and Lourenzo Fern�andez-Prieto -- Tractorization : France 1946-1955 / Laurent Herment -- Rural society and structural policy -- Structural policy and the state : changing agricultural society in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1945-1960 / Erwin H. Karel and Yves Segers -- From food scarcity to overproduction : saving the German peasant during the miracle years / Gesine Gerhard -- Farm labour in the urban-industrial Swedish state / Carin Martiin -- Similar means to secure postwar food supplies across Western Europe : a conclusion / Juan Pan-Montojo, Carin Martiin and Paul Brassley.