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| Title | Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815-1913: a new comparison |
| Author/s | Astrid Kander, Paul Warde |
| Department/s |
Department of Economic History
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.14... Restricted Access (Alternative Location) |
| Publication/Series | Economic History Review |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 - 29 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Abstract English |
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. |
| Subject |
History and Archaeology |
| Keywords | horses, draught animals, oxen, land productivity, England, labour productivity, energy |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Supplementary material |
Number, Size and Energy Consumption of Draught Animals in European Agriculture
Restriction: Free access |
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