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“Horn of Plenty”: The Globalization of Mediterranean Horticulture and the Economic Development of Southern Europe, 1880–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

José Morilla Critz
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, at the University of Alcal´.
Alan L. Olmstead
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs at the University of California, Davis.
Paul W. Rhode
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract

During the late nineteenth century, competition from cheap American grains undermined agricultural economies across Europe. This article investigates how similar forces of globalization in the production of Mediterranean fruits and nuts dampened economic prospects across southern Europe and in some cases contributed to outright economic and political crises.

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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999

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