Social History of Agriculture

Social History of Agriculture

AngličtinaPevná vazba
Isett, Christopher
Rowman & Littlefield
EAN: 9781442209664
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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.
EAN 9781442209664
ISBN 1442209666
Typ produktu Pevná vazba
Vydavatel Rowman & Littlefield
Datum vydání 11. listopadu 2016
Stránky 422
Jazyk English
Rozměry 239 x 158 x 28
Země United States
Sekce Tertiary Education
Autoři Isett, Christopher; Miller, Stephen
Ilustrace Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations