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Book Synopsis The Real Agricultural Revolution by : Paul Brassley
Download or read book The Real Agricultural Revolution written by Paul Brassley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.
Book Synopsis The Real Agricultural Revolution. The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985 by : Paul Brassley
Download or read book The Real Agricultural Revolution. The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985 written by Paul Brassley and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men, women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to produce less than half of the country's temperate food. By 1985, less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the output of the country's agriculture had more than doubled. This is the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any individual one of them. We know too little about change at the individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably between farms and between different technologies.0 Based on an improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts, supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this book explores the links between the production of new technologies, their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official statistics.0WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Prize.
Book Synopsis Sowing Modernity by : Peter D. McClelland
Download or read book Sowing Modernity written by Peter D. McClelland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial question was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way? McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular focus on the change in implements used to produce small grains. With wit and verve and an abundance of detail, he demonstrates that the first great surge in inventive activity in agronomy in the United States took place following the War of 1812, much of it in a fifteen-year period ending in 1830. Once questioning the status quo became the norm for producers on and off the farm, according to McClelland, the march to modernization was virtually assured. With the aid of more than 270 illustrations, many of them taken from contemporary sources, McClelland describes this stunning transformation in a manner rarely found in the agricultural literature. How primitive farming implements worked, what their defects were, and how they were initially redesigned are explained in a manner intelligible to the novice and yet offering analysis and information of special interest to the expert.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution by : Eric Kerridge
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by Eric Kerridge and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution by : Eric Kerridge
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by Eric Kerridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution, 1750-1880 by : Jonathan David Chambers
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution, 1750-1880 written by Jonathan David Chambers and published by New-York : Schocken Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Revolution Down on the Farm by : Paul Conkin
Download or read book A Revolution Down on the Farm written by Paul Conkin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin’s lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America’s vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution by : J. V. Beckett
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by J. V. Beckett and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution by : Cathryn J. Long
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by Cathryn J. Long and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1700s in Britain, later in North America and Europe, new crops, new methods, new technology, and a changing economic system led to a revolutionary increase in food production and population. It was an essential predecessor to the Industrial Revolution, and had many other surprising consequences in world history.
Book Synopsis History of Soybeans and the Great Agricultural Revolution (1874-2021) by : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Download or read book History of Soybeans and the Great Agricultural Revolution (1874-2021) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well document, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 136 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Book Synopsis Harvey Baum by : Edward Sherwood Mead
Download or read book Harvey Baum written by Edward Sherwood Mead and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Agricultural Change by : David Grigg
Download or read book The Dynamics of Agricultural Change written by David Grigg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982. Until the nineteenth-century the history of agriculture was the history of mankind but it has not perhaps received the wide attention that this importance justifies. In this study, the author reviews for the student of agricultural history successive attempts to describe and explain agricultural changes that are not specific to a limited area or a particular time. In a sense The Dynamics of Agricultural Change is a systematic historical geography of agriculture. Some of the models the author explores have been developed within agricultural history; some, drawn from other disciplines, can be applied fruitfully to it. What is the relationship between population growth and agricultural development? Between environmental changes and those in agriculture? What was the effect of the industrial revolution? And has there been an agricultural revolution? This book suggests to university students of economic history, historical geography and agriculture, a number of stimulating ways of interpreting and reinterpreting agricultural history.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution of the 20th Century by : Don Paarlberg
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution of the 20th Century written by Don Paarlberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for a varied audience: college students of agriculture and sociology; high school students of vocation agriculture; members of the American Agricultural Economics Association; people with a long-standing background in agriculture; and other readers interested in 20th century agriculture. The book reads like a story and is supplemented with excellent photographs, contrasting past practices with modern technology.
Book Synopsis A History of Agriculture in Europe and America by : Norman Scott Brien Gras
Download or read book A History of Agriculture in Europe and America written by Norman Scott Brien Gras and published by New York, Crofts. This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk by : Naomi Riches
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk written by Naomi Riches and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis The Agricultural Revolution by : Margaret Killingray
Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by Margaret Killingray and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution by : G. E. Mingay
Download or read book Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution written by G. E. Mingay and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1968 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
