Recasting the "agrarian question": The reproduction of family farming in the Southern High Plains

Economic Geography

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 398-415

  Roberts, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural political economy; Intergenerational reproduction; Irrigation; Southern High Plains; Uneven development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY; FAMILY FARMING; INTERGENERATIONAL REPRODUCTION; MARKET ECONOMY;

USA, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO; USA, TEXAS, SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS;

EID: 0030434576     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/144521     Document Type: Article

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