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The Social History of Agriculture
- From the Origins to the Current Crisis
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Social History of Agriculture af Stephen Miller, Christopher Isett, 9781442209671
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
422
ISBN-13:
9781442209671
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1442209674
Udg. Dato:
9 nov 2016
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Oplagsdato:
9 nov 2016

The Social History of Agriculture

- From the Origins to the Current Crisis
Engelsk
Paperback
Format:

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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 Miller argue 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.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
422
ISBN-13:
9781442209671
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1442209674
Udg. Dato:
9 nov 2016
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Oplagsdato:
9 nov 2016
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