| | | List of illustrations | | |
| | | Introduction by Pedro Lains and Vicente Pinilla | | |
| Pt. 1 | | The context | | 25 |
| 1 | | Conceptual issues for the comparative study of agricultural development by Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode | | 27 |
| 2 | | Europe and the international trade in agricultural and food products, 1870-2000 by Gema Aparicio and Vicente Pinilla and Raul Serrano | | 52 |
| 3 | | Agriculture and structural change: lessons from the UK experience in an international context by Stephen Broadberry | | 76 |
| Pt. 2 | | Country studies | | 95 |
| 4 | | Technological change, institutional development and economic growth in Dutch agriculture, 1870-1939 by Jan-Pieter Smits | | 97 |
| 5 | | The contribution of agriculture to economic growth in Denmark, 1870-1939 by Ingrid Henriksen | | 117 |
| 6 | | Swedish agriculture in economic development, 1870-1939 by Lennart Schon | | 148 |
| 7 | | Agriculture and economic development in Germany, 1870-1939 by Oliver Grant | | 178 |
| 8 | | Agriculture and economic development in France, 1870-1939 by Nadine Vivier | | 210 |
| 9 | | Agriculture and economic development in Italy, 1870-1939 by Giovanni Federico | | 234 |
| 10 | | Local comparative advantage: agriculture and economic development in Poland, 1870-1973 by Nikolaus Wolf | | 255 |
| 11 | | Agricultural development and impeded growth: the case of Hungary, 1870-1973 by Michael Kopsidis | | 286 |
| 12 | | The contribution of agriculture to Spanish economic development, 1870-1973 by Ernesto Clar and Vicente Pinilla | | 311 |
| 13 | | Agriculture and economic development in Portugal, 1870-1973 by Pedro Lains | | 333 |
| 14 | | Agriculture and economic development in Greece, 1870-1973 by Socrates D. Petmezas | | 353 |
| 15 | | Agriculture and economic development in Turkey, 1870-2000 by Sevket Pamuk | | 375 |
| | | Index | | 397 |