What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long-term perspectives on the primary sector.

1. Introduction - Agriculture and the Big Crash PART I The crisis in a long-term perspective 2. The Great Depression as Great Transformation? Global food regime crisis and (inter-)national transition pathways, 1925-39 3. Agricultural crisis in Spain (Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries) PART II The mechanisms of the crisis 4. The 1929 crisis from the perspective of a food-Importing country - The United Kingdom, 1928-35 5. International markets, policy, and mobility. 'Rural Italies' in the 1930s recession 6. From boom to burst - Argentine's primary sector and the 1930s Crisis 7. The effects of the Great Depression on the agricultural economy of the tobacco-exporting countries in South-eastern Europe 8. The 1929 crisis in Hungary's dual agriculture 9. The impact of the crisis on the Polish agriculture (1929-35) PART III The crisis and the policies 10. Swedish agriculture and the crisis of the 1930s 11. Spanish agriculture and the Great Depression 12. Mexican agriculture in view of the crisis of the first globalization - Between the revolutionary crisis and the Great Depression (1914-29) 13. The problem of the wheat and the political answers to the agricultural crisis in France of the 1930s 14. Agriculture in Switzerland and the crises of the 1920s and 1930s 15. Conclusion - Agricultural crises and government responses during the interwar period in the Atlantic trading network