When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and - up till now - only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s. The author identifies the policies and practices required for such an achievement under conditions of petroleum-scarcity and in doing so, challenges...
When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one livi...
Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival s celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonizers, notions of the land have become particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. In doing so, she presents a new vision of the...
Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival s ce...
