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... peasant proprietors also characterises well - doing tenant . farmers • Small farmers cannot compete successfully with large . Manual cultivation may be prolonged where the soil is minutely divided and the agricultural population is ...
... peasant proprietors also characterises well - doing tenant . farmers • Small farmers cannot compete successfully with large . Manual cultivation may be prolonged where the soil is minutely divided and the agricultural population is ...
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... peasant proprietors also characterises well - doing tenant farmers 197 198 • 198 199 200 Small farmers cannot compete successfully with large . Manual cultivation may be prolonged where the soil is minutely divided and the agricultural ...
... peasant proprietors also characterises well - doing tenant farmers 197 198 • 198 199 200 Small farmers cannot compete successfully with large . Manual cultivation may be prolonged where the soil is minutely divided and the agricultural ...
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... peasant proprietors . They may co - operate to assist each other in the introduction of machinery , & c . · Disadvantages of tenancy as regards the cultivation of the soil Inducements to improvements not so constant with tenant as with ...
... peasant proprietors . They may co - operate to assist each other in the introduction of machinery , & c . · Disadvantages of tenancy as regards the cultivation of the soil Inducements to improvements not so constant with tenant as with ...
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... peasantry have been so long free , and wherein they have had opportunities , from the uniform development of manufactures and commerce , of improving their condition . From the latter half of the fourteenth century to the time of ...
... peasantry have been so long free , and wherein they have had opportunities , from the uniform development of manufactures and commerce , of improving their condition . From the latter half of the fourteenth century to the time of ...
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... peasantry in many parts of France had therefore be- come proprietors of a large part of the country long before the first Revolution . The celebrated traveller , Arthur Young , was astonished at the great subdivision of the land in ...
... peasantry in many parts of France had therefore be- come proprietors of a large part of the country long before the first Revolution . The celebrated traveller , Arthur Young , was astonished at the great subdivision of the land in ...
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