"All of the chapters provide detailed and sophisticated analyses and have substantial bibliographiesto enable interested readers to research topics further. As the editors pointed out, most ofthe publications on agriculture in the Great Depression deal with the United States, thus one aimof this bookwas to providemore information about the crisis’ effects in many other countries, andthe book succeeds in doing so...[F]or anyone interested in the agricultural effects of the Great Depression, this book is essential."Mark B. Tauger, Economic History Review"What [the book] elaborates and makes it worth using, are the differences between countries and, what I consider its main value, the importance of the longer-term view. The interaction between the Great Depression and agriculture becomes clearer, better understood and seen by analysing it from a historical perspective –in this case from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Moreover, it applies the historical approach also to the development of agriculture itself and, therefore, it brings to the forefront the role of the maturation of agriculture and its declining profitability, as well as its importance for the nation-state."Anton Schuurman, Historia Agraria"The book provides...both an extremely valuable contribution to the economic history of agriculture in the Great Depression and an invitation to social and cultural historians to shed more light on the experiences, the struggles and the perceptions of rural people trying to come to terms with the repercussions of the crisis on their livelihoods, and to global, comparative and transnational historians to investigate the interconnections and currents on which the knowledge to combat the Great Depression traveled."Juri Auderset, Neuere und Neueste Geschichte"The book edited by Gérard Béaur fills a void that had not yet been filled in European rural history. Strangely, we lacked a work that comprehensively and extensively addressed the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s on European agriculture and rural societies."Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Proposte e Ricerche"There is no doubt that the results of this collective research open new questions about the nature of the agrarian depression and its relationship to the creation of a new agri-food system in the thirties; And in the context of current conflicts and uncertainties, reading this book becomes a very suggestive tool to reflect on the consequences and future of the current agri-food model and its complex relationships with nature and the well-being of the world's population.Gabriel Jover Avellà, Proposte e Ricerche"The book represents a major advance in the analysis of the Great Depression, the most severe economic crisis until the interwar period and which massively affected humanity. It presents a multidimensional analysis of the crisis in the agricultural sector in Europe and the Americas."Katerina Brégianni, Etudes Rurales
