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Zusatztext 'This is a valuable and accessible study that teachers and students will find useful.' - Richard Brown! Historical Association'Recommended. All undergraduate students and general readers.' L. S. Cline! Missouri State University. Reviewed in 2011aug CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Mark B. Taugeris an associate professor of history at West Virginia University! USA. He has published extensively on famines and agriculture in the USSR and India. His work has won the Eric Wolf Prize of the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award of the Agricultural History Society. Klappentext Looks at farming in early civilizations - from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to early China and India - and asks how it is that since farmers have played a critical role in the fate of the species that they have never enjoyed high social status. Zusammenfassung Looks at farming in early civilizations - from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to early China and India - and asks how it is that since farmers have played a critical role in the fate of the species that they have never enjoyed high social status. Inhaltsverzeichnis Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Glossary of Terms Introduction 1: The Origins of Agriculture and the Dual Subordination 2: Agriculture in antiquity: the first great conflicts over land and freedom 3: Agriculture in the post-classical period 4: Early modern agriculture and European agricultural dominance (1500-1800) 5: Agriculture in the 19th Century: Emancipation! Modernization! and Colonialism 6: Agriculture and Crisis 1900-1940 7: Boom and Crisis: Agriculture from World War II to the 21st Century Conclusion
