Abstract:

A historical analysis of the state-led project of optimizing tobacco production in interwar Greece allows us to appreciate how the scarcity of capital, combined with the merchant-friendly stance of Greece’s authorities, placed a great burden on the peasantry. At the same time, dependence on German demand for Greek tobacco constrained the ability of state institutions to intervene in the tobacco sector. The scale of analysis proposed here enriches the historiography on Greek agriculture by overcoming some of the limitations of the approaches that emphasize quantitative data on productivity, output, and land use, without paying sufficient attention to the concrete impact of policy on the daily lives of the peasantry, the houses in which they lived, and their interaction with state officials.

摘要：

对国家主导的两次世界大战期间希腊优化烟草生产项目的历史分析，使我们意识到资本的稀缺以及希腊当局对商人的友好态度如何给农民带来了沉重负担。同时，对德国对希腊烟草需求的依赖限制了国家机构干预烟草业的能力。本文提出的分析规模通过克服了强调生产力，产出和土地使用的定量数据的方法的某些局限性，从而丰富了希腊农业的史学知识，而没有充分注意政策对希腊人日常生活的具体影响。农民，他们居住的房屋以及与州官员的互动。