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tion System for the History of European
Integration (1825-2005),” directed by Jordi
Martí Henneberg, Inventing Europe grant
FP-005. The GIS data on the French rail
system have been constructed with the
help of Mathilde Pizzuto with funds from
the NEH Grant and Loïc Sapet with grant
funds from the French National Agency of
Research (ANR 07 Corp 019). Much of the
data for Britain were taken from the Great
Britain Historical GIS (GBHGIS) , h t p : //
w w w.gbhgis.org, and the cantonal bound-
aries were kindly supplied by G. William
Skinner of the University of California,
Davis. Schwartz thanks students for their
assistance: Jacinta Edebeli, and Ayla Ben-
Chaim, Kirsten Hansen, and Morgan Wil-
son for help in preparing the GIS data on
Dorset County agriculture. Special thanks
go to our collaborator, Ian Gregory, and
for his indispensable help over the years.
For this part of our project, Ian provided
the standardized parish units and associ-
ated population data (1861-1911) and the
digital photographs he made of the agri-
cultural census returns for Dorset County
at the National Archives, Kew; Thevenin
provided the georeferenced communal
boundaries and setlement centers and su-
pervised the work of Mathilde Pizzuto and
Loïc Sapet, who digitized the rail lines and
stations for France.
Notes
1. R ichard Jefferies, “Steam on Coun-
try Roads,” in Field and Hedgerow, Being
the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies (Lon-
don: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889), 238,
231. This was a posthumously published
collection of his essays of the 1880s. Jef-
feries died in 1887. See Eric L. Jones, “The
Land That R ichard Jefferies Inherited,”
Rural History 16 (2005): 83-93; P. J. Perry,
“An Agricultural Journalist on the 'Great
Depression': R ichard Jefferies,” Journal of
British Studies 9 (1970): 126-40.
2. Jefferies, “Steam on Country
Roads,” 231.
3. Ibid., 236.
4. Ibid., 239.
5. There are several notable excep-
tions that specifically apply a comparative
approach to the study of agriculture and
agricultural policies. See N. Koning, he
Failure of Agrarian Capitalism: Agrarian
Politics in the UK, Germany, the Nether-
lands and the USA, 1846-1919 (London:
Routledge, 1994); M. Tracy, Govern-
ment and Agriculture in Western Europe,
1880-1988, 3rd ed. (New York: Harvester
W heatsheaf, 1989); K. H. O'Rourke,
“The European Grain Invasion, 1870-
1913,” Journal of Economic History 57 (1997):
775-801; and J. L. van Zanden, “he
Growth of Production and Productivity
in European Agriculture, 1870-1914,” Eco-
nomic History Review 44 (1991): 215-39.
6. E. J. T. Collins, “The Great Depres-
sion, 1875-1896,” in The Agrarian History of
England and Wales: Volume VII 1850-1914,
ed. E. J. T. Collins (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 2000), 138-207;
R . Perren, Agriculture in Depression,
1870-1940, New Studies in Economic and
Social History (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995).
7. E. H. Hunt and S. J. Pam, “Prices
and Structural Response in English Ag-
riculture, 1873-1896,” Economic History
Review 50 (1997): 477-505; B. A ton, “he
Great Agricultural Depression on the
English Chalklands: The Hampshire Ex-
perience,” Agricultural History Review 44
(1996): 191-205; M. Turner, “Output and
Prices in UK Agriculture, 1867-1914, and
the Great Agricultural Depression Recon-
sidered,” Agricultural History Review 40
(1992): 38-51; M. E. Turner, “Agricultural
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