List of tables -- List of figures -- Introduction / Leen Van Molle, Yves Segers, and Paul Brassley -- The international perspective -- Natura non fecit saltus: the 1930s as the discontinuity in the history of European agriculture / Giovanni Federico -- International trade in agricultural products, 1935-1955 / Paul Brassley -- State regulation and agricultural policy -- Paths to productivism: agricultural regulation in the second World War and its aftermath in Great Britain and German-annexed Austria / John Martin and Ernst Langthaler -- Spanish agriculture 1931-1955: crisis, wars, and new policies in the reshaping of rural society / Juan Pan-Montojo -- Wartime agricultural policy in peacetime: a case study of Hungary, 1940-1956 / Zsuzsanna Varga -- The state: farmer relationship -- From war profits to post-war investments: how the German occupation improved investments in Danish agriculture in the post-war years / Mogens R.Nissen -- Corporatism, agricultural modernisation and war in Ireland and Switzerland, 1935-55 / Peter Moser and Tony Varley -- Farming, favoured in times of fear: swedish agricultural politics 1935-55 / Carin Martiin -- The social impact of state control of agriculture in Britain 1939-55 / Brian Short -- Rural identities -- Change in the European countryside: peasants and democracy in Germany 1935-55 / Gesine Gerhard -- Heroes of the reconstruction: images of British farmers in war and peace / Clare Griffiths -- Food stocks, the black market, and town and country tensions in France during two world wars and beyond / Edouard Lynch -- Conclusions / Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, and Leen Van Molle -- Notes on contributors -- Notes -- Index.