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Boeren in Nederland. Geschiedenis van de landbouw, 1500-2000. By Jan Bieleman. Amsterdam: Boom, 2008. 672 pp., euro39.00, hardback, ISBN 978-90- 8506-540-1.
Bieleman's book is a revised and enhanced version of his 1992 publication Geschiedenis van de landbouw in Nederland, 1500-1950. The book is intended to be a manual of Dutch agricultural history of the last five hundred years. In his original version he presented this history in three periods: 1500-1650, 1650-1850, and 1850-1950. In his new edition, Bieleman has added a fourth chapter about the last fifty years of the twentieth century entitled "Farming Becomes Agribusiness." The preface of this new chapter contains the story of the rapid changes that Dutch agriculture...