Not guilty? Agriculture in the 1920s and the Great Depression

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 949-976

  Federico, Giovanni ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; SOCIAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30444444676     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050705000367     Document Type: Article

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