Introduction Ellen Hillbom and Patrick Svensson 1. Agricultural Transformation, Land Ownership, and Markets in Inland Spain: The Case of Southern Navarre, 1600-1935 Jose-Miguel Lana Berasain 2. Are Institutions the Whole Story? Frontier Expansion, Land Quality and Ownership Rights in the River Plate, 1850-1920 Henry Willebald 3. State-led Agricultural Development and Change in Yogyakarta, 1973-1996 Tobias Axelsson 4. Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864-1914 Steven Nafziger 5. Slaves as Capital Investment in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1795 Johan Fourie 6. Land Inequality and Agrarian per Capita Incomes in Guadalajara, Spain, 1690-1800 Carlos Santiago-Caballero 7. Smallholders' Access to Financial Institutions in Meru, Tanzania, 1995-2011 Ellen Hillbom 8. Production and Credits: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Agrarian Economy in Vastra Karaby Parish, Sweden, 1786-1846 Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson 9. Land Concentration, Institutional Control and African Agency. Growth and Stagnation of European Tobacco Farming in Shire Highlands, c. 1900-1940 Erik Green 10. Peasants Households' Access to Land and Income Diversification, the Peruvian-Andean Case 1998-2000 Jackeline Velazco and Vicente Pinilla 11. Institutional Models for Accelerating Agricultural Commercialization: Evidence from Maize, Cotton and Horticulture in Zambia, 1965-2012 Antony Chapoto, Steven Haggblade, Munguzwe Hichaambwa, Stephen Kabwe, Steven Longabaugh, Nicholas J. Sitko and David Tschirley 12. Reflections on the Role of Agriculture in the Structural Transformation: A Macro-Micro Perspective C. Peter Timmer