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Zusatztext '...an important book on the development of wheat breeding in the United States! Great Britain! India and Mexico during the 20th century...The book's strength is its descriptive power! especially in intellectual hisotr...Throughout! Perkins provides his readers with an excellent introduction to a variety of complex topics...' Klappentext Controlling the Earth explores why four different countries (U.S., India, Britain, and Mexico) each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exhange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. Furture reform efforts in agriculture will be affected by this history. Zusammenfassung Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Political Ecology and Yield Transformation 2.: Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding 3.: Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1939 4.: Plant Breeding in its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940 5.: The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics for Plant Breeding, 1941-1945 6.: Hunger, Overpopulation, and Natural Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956 7.: Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970 8.: Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970 9.: Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Post-Imperial Britain, 1935-1954 10.: Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975 Epilogue: Implications of History the Future
Summary
Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization.
