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- ↑ Jones, Eric Lionel, and Stuart Joseph Woolf, eds. (2013) Agrarian Change and Economic Development: The Historical Problems. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis
- ↑ Grigg, D. (1979). Ester Boserup's theory of agrarian change: a critical review. Progress in human geography, 3(1), 64-84.