The Soybean Through World History

Author : Matilda Baraibar Norberg,Lisa Deutsch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000903478

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The Soybean Through World History by Matilda Baraibar Norberg,Lisa Deutsch Pdf

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth; used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social-ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from inputs in production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes with a discussion of the main challenges and contradictions of the current soy regime that could trigger its rupture and end. This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

Author : Matilda Baraibar Norberg,Lisa Deutsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 0367822865

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The Soybean Through World History by Matilda Baraibar Norberg,Lisa Deutsch Pdf

"This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyse the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of soy. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth, used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet's social and ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes by considering the soybean's future role in a desirable agrofood system which improves human health, culture and livelihoods, and the provision of ecosystem services. This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems"--

Author : Christine M. Du Bois
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781780239651

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The Story of Soy by Christine M. Du Bois Pdf

The humble soybean is the world’s most widely grown and most traded oilseed. And though found in everything from veggie burgers to cosmetics, breakfast cereals to plastics, soy is also a poorly understood crop often viewed in extreme terms—either as a superfood or a deadly poison. In this illuminating book, Christine M. Du Bois reveals soy’s hugely significant role in human history as she traces the story of soy from its domestication in ancient Asia to the promise and peril ascribed to it in the twenty-first century. Traveling across the globe and through millennia, The Story of Soy includes a cast of fascinating characters as vast as the soy fields themselves—entities who’ve applauded, experimented with, or despised soy. From Neolithic villagers to Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers, and Nazi strategists; from George Washington Carver to Henry Ford, Monsanto, and Greenpeace; from landless peasants to petroleum refiners, Du Bois explores soy subjects as diverse as its impact on international conflicts, its role in large-scale meat production and disaster relief, its troubling ecological impacts, and the nutritional controversies swirling around soy today. She also describes its genetic modification, the scandals and pirates involved in the international trade in soybeans, and the potential of soy as an intriguing renewable fuel. Featuring compelling historical and contemporary photographs, The Story of Soy is a potent reminder never to underestimate the importance of even the most unprepossesing sprout.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-14
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 9781948436113

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Canada (1831-2019) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 224 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Author : William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 2058 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 9781928914709

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Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1900-1923) by William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world;s most comprehensive, we documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 520 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 1567 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436342

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Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1024 BCE to 1899) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 463 photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 3377 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 9781928914655

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Japan, and in Japanese Cookbooks and Restaurants outside Japan (701 CE to 2014) by William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject, with 445 photographs and illustrations. Plus an extensive index.

Author : Ines Prodöhl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000877397

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Globalizing the Soybean by Ines Prodöhl Pdf

Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans in the interwar period were shipped; and the United States, which became the leading cultivator of soy worldwide during the 1940s. This book explores the German and U.S. adoption of the soybean being closely tied to global economic and political changes, such as the two world wars and the Great Depression. The attraction of the soybean to stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic was linked to a need for cheap alternatives to butter and lard and a desire for greater quantities of meat, which led to the soybean becoming a cheap resource for fat and fodder. Only occasionally was it also used as food. This volume is useful for anyone who is studying or interested in economic history and commodity trading in the twentieth century. It is also connected to the histories of capitalism, globalization, imperialism, and materiality.

Author : William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781928914662

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Korea, and in Korean Cookbooks, Restaurants, and Korean Work with Soyfoods outside Korea by William Shurtleff,Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on soy in Korea. With extensive index and 80 photographs and illustration. Free of charge in digital format on Google Books

Author : Lawrence A. Johnson,Pamela J. White,Richard Galloway
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128043523

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Soybeans by Lawrence A. Johnson,Pamela J. White,Richard Galloway Pdf

This comprehensive new soybean reference book disseminates key soybean information to “drive success for soybeans via 23 concise chapters covering all aspects of soybeans--from genetics, breeding and quality to post-harvest management, marketing and utilization (food and energy applications), U.S. domestic versus foreign practices and production methods. The most complete and authoritative book on soybeans Features internationally recognized authors in the 21-chapter book Offers sufficient depth to meet the needs of experts in the subject matter, as well as individuals with basic knowledge of the topic

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781928914808

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland (1735-2015) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 134 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Author : Christine M. Du Bois,Chee Beng Tan,Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Food habits
ISBN : 9971694131

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The World of Soy by Christine M. Du Bois,Chee Beng Tan,Sidney Wilfred Mintz Pdf

Author : Guriqbal Singh
Publisher : CABI
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781845936440

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The Soybean by Guriqbal Singh Pdf

The soybean is a crop of global importance and is one of most frequently cultivated crops worldwide. It is rich in oil and protein, used for human and animal consumption as well as for industrial purposes. Soybean plants also play an important role in crop diversification and benefit the growth of other crops, adding nitrogen to the soil during crop rotation. With contributions from eminent researchers from around the world, The Soybean provides a concise coverage of all aspects of this important crop, including genetics and physiology, varietal improvement, production and protection technology, utilization and nutritional value.

Author : Jeannie Whayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190924164

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The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History by Jeannie Whayne Pdf

Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but also because of agriculture's potential to lead to conflicts over precious resources. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History reflects this rebirth and examines the wide-reaching implications of agricultural issues, featuring essays that touch on the green revolution, the development of the Atlantic slave plantation, the agricultural impact of the American Civil War, the rise of scientific and corporate agriculture, and modern exploitation of agricultural labor.

Author : Ines Prodöhl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Soybean
ISBN : 1032185791

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Globalizing the Soybean by Ines Prodöhl Pdf

"Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean's journey centered around three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop's main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans in the interwar period were shipped; and the United States, which became the leading cultivator of soy worldwide during the 1940s. This book explores the German and U.S. adoption of the soybean being closely tied to global economic and political changes, such as the two world wars and the Great Depression. The attraction of the soybean to stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic was linked to a need for cheap alternatives to butter and lard and a desire for greater quantities of meat, which led to the soybean becoming a cheap resource for fat and fodder. Only occasionally was it also used as food. This volume is useful for anyone who is studying or interested in economic history and commodity trading in the twentieth century. It is also connected to the histories of capitalism, globalization, imperialism, and materiality"--