Agriculture in World History

ISBN-13: 9780367420918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 198 str.

Mark B. Tauger

Opis

Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmers and urban societies from the ancient world to the 21^st century.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The origins of agriculture and the dual dependency  2. Agriculture in antiquity: The first great conflicts over land and freedom  3. Post-classical agriculture: Western serfdom, Eastern innovation  4. Early modern agriculture: Climate crises and servile oppression  5. Agriculture in the 19^th century: Emancipation, colonialism, modernization 6. Early-20th-century agriculture: War, depression, authoritarianism, revolution  7. Rise and fall of the U.S.-centered world agriculture system after World War II  8. Agriculture in the late 20th to 21st centuries: Unprecedented production, unprecedented problems

O autorze

Mark B. Tauger is Associate Professor of History at West Virginia University, USA. In 2016–2017 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He has published on agriculture and famines and has won the Eric Wolf Prize of the Journal of Peasant History and the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award of the Agricultural History Society.