World Agriculture Before And After 1492

Author : James F. Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031155246

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World Agriculture Before and After 1492 by James F. Hancock Pdf

The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby's celebrated book - The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book, Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the world became homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease after Columbus landed. His landmark study broke new ground in its broad conceptualization of the Atlantic exchange. Building on what Crosby so succinctly and brilliantly presented, the main goal of this new work is to present the depth of information that has emerged since "The Columbian Exchange" and to discuss more fully the development of crops and agriculture before and after the Iberian contact. It follows the journey of crops and livestock in the Old and New Worlds and end's with their distribution in today's world.

Author : James F Hancock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031155239

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World Agriculture Before and After 1492 by James F Hancock Pdf

The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby’s celebrated book - The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book, Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the world became homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease after Columbus landed. His landmark study broke new ground in its broad conceptualization of the Atlantic exchange. Building on what Crosby so succinctly and brilliantly presented, the main goal of this new work is to present the depth of information that has emerged since "The Columbian Exchange" and to discuss more fully the development of crops and agriculture before and after the Iberian contact. It follows the journey of crops and livestock in the Old and New Worlds and end’s with their distribution in today’s world.

Author : Alfred W. Crosby Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216063087

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The Columbian Exchange by Alfred W. Crosby Jr. Pdf

Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small, in both directions across the Atlantic. This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever. The book The Columbian Exchange changed the field of history drastically and forever as well. It has become one of the foundational works in the burgeoning field of environmental history, and it remains one of the canonical texts for the study of world history. This 30th anniversary edition of The Columbian Exchange includes a new preface from the author, reflecting on the book and its creation, and a new foreword by J. R. McNeill that demonstrates how Crosby established a brand new perspective for understanding ecological and social events. As the foreword indicates, The Columbian Exchange remains a vital book, a small work that contains within the inspiration for future examinations into what happens when two peoples, separated by time and space, finally meet.

Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biogeography
ISBN : 0837158214

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The Columbian Exchange (by) Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. Foreword by Otto Von Mering by Alfred W. Crosby Pdf

Author : J. Esteban Hernández Bermejo,J. León
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251032173

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Neglected Crops by J. Esteban Hernández Bermejo,J. León Pdf

About neglected crops of the American continent. Published in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of Cord�ba (Spain) as part of the Etnobot�nica92 Programme (Andalusia, 1992)

Author : Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583671214

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A History of World Agriculture by Marcel Mazoyer,Laurence Roudart Pdf

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 : Stephen Mosley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000991444

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The Environment in World History by Stephen Mosley Pdf

Now in its second edition and refreshed by a decade of new research, The Environment in World History uncovers the deep-rooted causes of interconnected climate, biodiversity, and ecological crises that have brought the environment to the top of the global political agenda in the twenty-first century. Its expanded chapters and case studies explore a wide range of issues including the following: the hunting of wildlife and the loss of biodiversity across the globe; deforestation and the development of strategies to protect the world’s forests; soil degradation caused by worldwide agricultural expansion, one of the most profound ways that humans have altered the planet; the widening impact of urban-industrial growth and the deepening ecological footprints of the world’s cities; and the rising levels of air, land and water pollution as the trade-off for continued economic growth worldwide. Covering the last five hundred years, it offers an essential environmental perspective on well-known world history narratives of imperialism and colonialism, trade and commerce, technological progress and the advance of civilisation. Clearly written and fully up-to-date, it is an invaluable resource for all students of world history and environmental studies.

Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046828508

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The Columbian Exchange by Alfred W. Crosby Pdf

"The best thing about this book is its overarching thesis, the concept of a Columbian exchange. This provocative device permits Crosby to shape a lot of familiar and seemingly unrelated data into a fresh synthesis. . . . The implications of this interplay between novel biological and social forces are fascinating." Journal of American History.

Author : Sushma Naithani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biology
ISBN : OCLC:1258240988

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History and Science of Cultivated Plants by Sushma Naithani Pdf

Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679743378

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America in 1492 by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Pdf

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall. Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.

Author : John L. Sorenson,Carl Lewis Johannessen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 0595513921

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World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 by John L. Sorenson,Carl Lewis Johannessen Pdf

People moved into America very early across the Bering Strait. By the fifth millennia B.C.E. tropical sailors brought diseases to America and took plants and animals in both directions. Long before Columbus, tropical sailors carefully selected crops from New World highlands and shorelines, wet and dry climates, and took them to the Old World where they were grown in appropriate environments. Medicinal and psychedelic plants were traded and maintained in Egypt and Peru during separate, 1,400-year periods. This implies that maritime trade was continuous. In this groundbreaking book, learn about: ● 84 plants that were taken from the Americas to the Old World. ● What plants and animals were brought to the Americas. ● Why world trade was essential for transfer of so many. ● Interconnectedness of civilizations had to result from world trade. ● Dating of 18 species by archaeology with radio carbon shows dispersal. ● And much more! Plants, diseases, and animals from America were distributed throughout the world, across the oceans before 1492. It is time for scientists, teachers, and students to reconsider their beliefs about the early history of civilization with World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: John L. Sorenson is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University. He earned a doctorate in archeology from UCLA. Carl L. Johannessen is an emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of Oregon. He earned a doctorate in geography from the University of California at Berkeley.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210342130

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Foreign Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. S. Swaminathan,S. L. Kochhar
Publisher : Scholium International
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000003979980

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Plants and Society by M. S. Swaminathan,S. L. Kochhar Pdf

Author : Andrew Goudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Global environmental change
ISBN : 9780195108255

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Encyclopedia of Global Change: J-Z by Andrew Goudie Pdf

This reference work concentrates upon both the natural and man-made changes to the world's environment. Containing over 300 original, signed articles by distinguished scholars and 1,500 illustrations it is the comprehensive encyclopedia for this multi-discipline, high profile field. Articles fall into the general categories of: concepts of global change, earth and earth systems, human factors, resources, responses to global change agreements and associations, biographies and case studies. The accessible and jargon-free language make it an excellent work for the professional scholar as well as the interested general reader and a detail network of cross references and blind entries will help readers at all levels.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan,James Hoke Sweet
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 9780253354648

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The African Diaspora and the Disciplines by Tejumola Olaniyan,James Hoke Sweet Pdf

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives that take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly global way.