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Agriculture in World History

Author : Mark B. Tauger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136941614
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture in World History written by Mark B. Tauger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilization from its origins has depended on the food, fibre, and other commodities produced by farmers. In this unique exploration of the world history of agriculture, Mark B. Tauger looks at farmers, farming, and their relationships to non-farmers from the classical societies of the Mediterranean and China through to the twenty-first century. Viewing farmers as the most important human interface between civilization and the natural world, Agriculture in World History examines the ways that urban societies have both exploited and supported farmers, and together have endured the environmental changes and crises that threatened food production. Accessibly written and following a chronological structure, Agriculture in World History illuminates these topics through studies of farmers in numerous countries all over the world from Antiquity to the contemporary period. Key themes addressed include the impact of global warming, the role of political and social transformations, and the development of agricultural technology. In particular, the book highlights the complexities of recent decades: increased food production, declining numbers of farmers, and environmental, economic, and political challenges to increasing food production against the demands of a growing population. This wide-ranging survey will be an indispensable text for students of world history, and for anyone interested in the historical development of the present agricultural and food crises.

The Social History of Agriculture

Author : Christopher Isett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442209682
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Social History of Agriculture written by Christopher Isett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.

A History of World Agriculture

Author : Marcel Mazoyer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674918
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book A History of World Agriculture written by Marcel Mazoyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.

Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective

Author : Ellen Hillbom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415684951
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective written by Ellen Hillbom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a global history approach in order to reach a greater understanding of the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparisons over time and space. The book seeks to identify key factors for agricultural transformation, through the use of micro level case studies, and to assess their importance in a global perspective.

American Agriculture

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532817
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book American Agriculture written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.

The Cambridge World History: Volume 2, A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316297780
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History: Volume 2, A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE written by Graeme Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE–500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Organic Farming

Author : William Lockeretz
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845932897
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Organic Farming written by William Lockeretz and published by CABI. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses organic farming with regards to the origins and principles, policies and markets, organizations and institutions, and future concepts.

Agriculture in History: 1753-1958

Author :
Publisher : Magill's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781587655531
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture in History: 1753-1958 written by and published by Magill's Choice. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the central role agriculture has played in world history, the subject has received comparatively little attention in library reference materials. This book fills an important gap in reference works.

The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin

Author : Benjamin Horace Hibbard
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104493813
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin written by Benjamin Horace Hibbard and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A Companion to American Agricultural History

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119632226
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Agricultural History written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.

Topical Studies and References on the Economic History of American Agriculture

Author : Louis Bernard Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Topical Studies and References on the Economic History of American Agriculture written by Louis Bernard Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge History of Rural America

Author : Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135054975
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Rural America written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and how rural places have shaped the history of the nation. Bringing together leading scholars to analyze a wide array of themes in rural history and culture, this text is a state-of-the-art resource for students, scholars, and educators at all levels. This Routledge History provides a regional context for understanding change in rural communities across America and examines a number of areas where the history of rural people has deviated from the American mainstream. Readers will come away with an enhanced understanding of the interplay between urban and rural areas, a knowledge of the regional differences within the rural United States, and an awareness of the importance of agriculture and rural life to American society. The book is divided into four main sections: regions of rural America, rural lives in context, change and development, and resources for scholars and teachers. Examining the essays on the regions of rural America, readers can discover what makes New England different from the South, and why the Midwest and Mountain West are quite different places. The chapters on rural lives provide an entrée into the social and cultural history of rural peoples – women, children and men – as well as a description of some of the forces shaping rural communities, such as immigration, race and religious difference. Chapters on change and development examine the forces molding the countryside, such as rural-urban tensions, technological change and increasing globalization. The final section will help scholars and educators integrate rural history into their research, writing, and classrooms. By breaking the field of rural history into so many pieces, this volume adds depth and complexity to the history of the United States, shedding light on an understudied aspect of the American mythology and beliefs about the American dream.

World History Readers

Author : Rob Waring
Publisher : Seed Learning
ISBN 13 : 9781946452122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book World History Readers written by Rob Waring and published by Seed Learning. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge World History: Volume 2, A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE-500 CE

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108407649
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History: Volume 2, A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE-500 CE written by Graeme Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE-500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

The Global History of Organic Farming

Author : Gregory Allen Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191851186
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Global History of Organic Farming written by Gregory Allen Barton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the untold history of the organic farming movement and its massive impact on the world of agriculture and society; how it changed our consumer habits and our ethics, pointing back to the inspiration of the agricultural past, and demanding that we think about how our food is grown and the effect our daily habits have on nature.

Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History

Author : Michael Adas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566398312
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History written by Michael Adas and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the American Historical Association's series introduces readers to the cross-cultural study of ancient and classical civilizations. The opening essay by Jerry Bentley surveys methodologies and critical interpretations that have been essential to the development of comparative historical analysis. These include contributions from the fields of sociology, archaeology, linguistics, anthropology, and recent investigative practices that honor previously neglected groups and validate testimony passed down through oral traditions. The first set of essays highlight predominant themes in global history by examining the ongoing interactions between ancient agrarian and nomadic societies as well as the impact of these exchanges on economic development and cross-cultural adaptation. The essays in the second section focus on regional patterns in the dissemination of ideas, institutions, and material culture. By highlighting key historical transitions and recurring cultural patterns, this book provides an engaging introduction to the complexities of human development. Written by leading scholars in the field, the historiographic essays in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History offer students and teachers a comprehensive overview of the arguments, applications, and resources that inform comparative global history. Author note: Michael Adas is Abraham Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is currently editor of the American Historical Association's series on Global and Comparative History and co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series on "Studies in Comparative World History." He has published numerous articles and books, including most recently (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz) World Civilization: The Global Experience (1992) and Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (1993).

The Cambridge World History

Author : Graeme Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521192187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge World History written by Graeme Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of agriculture has often been described as the most important change in all of human history. Volume 2 of the Cambridge World History series explores the origins and impact of agriculture and agricultural communities, and also discusses issues associated with pastoralism and hunter-fisher-gatherer economies. To capture the patterns of this key change across the globe, the volume uses an expanded timeframe from 12,000 BCE-500 CE, beginning with the Neolithic and continuing into later periods. Scholars from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, historical linguistics, biology, anthropology, and history, trace common developments in the more complex social structures and cultural forms that agriculture enabled, such as sedentary villages and more elaborate foodways, and then present a series of regional overviews accompanied by detailed case studies from many different parts of the world, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Europe.