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Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OSU:32435005268263
Author : Cameron Muir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317910589
Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the development of modern agriculture promised ecological and social stability but instead descended into dysfunction. Contributing to knowledge in environmental, cultural and agricultural histories, it explores how people have tried to live in the aftermath of ‘ecological imperialism’. The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An environmental history journeys to the dry inland plains of Australia where European ideas and agricultural technologies clashed with a volatile and taunting country that resisted attempts to subdue and transform it for the supply of global markets. Its wide-ranging narrative puts gritty local detail in its global context to tell the story of how cultural anxieties about civilisation, population, and race, shaped agriculture in the twentieth century. It ranges from isolated experiment farms to nutrition science at the League of Nations, from local landholders to high profile moral crusaders, including an Australian apricot grower who met Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost fed the world. This book will be useful to undergraduates and postgraduates on courses examining international comparisons of nineteenth and twentieth century agriculture, and courses studying colonial development and settler societies. It will also appeal to food concerned general readers.
Author : Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583674918
Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.
Author : Peter A. Russell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773540644
An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct impact on rural settlement in the Prairies.
Author : Christopher Isett,Stephen Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209688
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 Millerargue 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.
Author : John DONALDSON (Professor of Botany.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019330530
Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590308483
Author : Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889772371
"The eighteen essays selected for this volume of the History of the Prairie West Series all focus on the agricultural history of the Canadian Plains. They cover a detailed survey of First Nations agricultural practices, agriculture during the fur trade era, and the history of ranching and the evolution as fenced-in farm settlements supplanted the open range." -- from publisher.
Author : John Donaldson, Int
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359059784
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Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340693852
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Author : James McCann
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0299146103
For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119632221
Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.
Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294042866
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Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1332897479
Excerpt from Agricultural Biography: Containing a Notice of the Life and Writings of the British Authors on Agriculture, From the Earliest Date in 1480 to the Present Time The writer of a preface has been called an accomplished liar, from the exaggerated statement generally made of the labour that has been incurred, and an over-estimate of the value of the work that has been produced. The preface to a book is as the porch of a house, denoting the good entertainment that is provided within the edifice; and an unadorned porch may be the most proper entrance to a simple work, of which the interior furniture may not possess a splendour to justify an elegant approach. A splendid preface and an ill-written book should not come together yet such junctions or marriages are held to be allowable, as they are not of kin. A sincere feeling and a truthful modesty must occupy the place of all other expressions, and vindicate the estimation of their value. On these grounds, a few observations are given at risk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Donaldson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022547267
In this book, John Donaldson provides biographical sketches of some of the most important British agricultural writers of the past 500 years, including Jethro Tull, Arthur Young, and John Claudius Loudon. Donaldson's writing is engaging and informative, and he demonstrates a deep knowledge and appreciation of the history of agriculture. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and practice of farming in Great Britain. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.