1. Making Socialist Agrarian Regime: quantifying rural labor with environment in China, 1949-1979 • Ziwei Zhang, Harvard Universtiy.

2. Farmers and Farm Workers: Work Organization and Social Relations on Six Farms in Central Sweden 1850-1910. • Patrick Svensson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

3. When Capital Comes with a Familiar Face: Embedded Agricultural Capital and Failed Peasant Rent Protest • Tiantian Liu, Johns Hopkins University.

4. Explaining Increases in Crop Yields Using Probate Inventories and Auctions in North-Eastern France, 1700-1839. • Jeremy Hayhoe, Université de Moncton.

5. Rainfall Variability and Agricultural Output in the Dutch Cape Colony • Erik Green, Lund University; Stefan Grab, University of Witwatersrand; Igor Martins, Lund University.