Social History of Agriculture - From the Origins to the Current Crisis

Informationen zum Autor By Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller Klappentext This 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, Isett and Millerargue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time. Zusammenfassung This 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! Isett and 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Settled Agriculture: The Ancient Origins of Community, State, and EmpireChapter 2: From Antiquity to the Eve of Agrarian Capitalism: Peasants and Dynastic StatesChapter 3: Agrarian Capitalism in the Early Modern World: Divergence in EurasiaChapter 4: Malthusian Limits in the Early Modern World: Peasants and MarketsChapter 5: The New World: Planters, Slaves, and SugarChapter 6: American Farming: Agrarian Roots of U.S. CapitalismChapter 7: New Imperialism: Colonial Agriculture in the Age of CapitalismChapter 8: Socialist Agriculture: Collectivization in Three CountriesChapter 9: Late Development: State-led Agrarian Change after World War IIChapter 10: Corporate Agriculture: Comparing the United States and BrazilConclusion

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• Authors: Christopher Isett, Christopher M. Miller Isett, Christopher Miller Isett, Christopher Mills Isett, Stephen Miller
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2016
• EAN: 9781442209671
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0967-1
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, Asia, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Africa, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, General & world history, Food & society, History: earliest times to present day, General and world history, The Americas, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Cultural studies: food and society