Format:
1 Online-Ressource (823 ungezählte Seiten)
ISBN:
9780197685440
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Agriculture from Pre-History to the Present -- Part I. Timeless Essentials -- 1. Making Sense of Land -- 2. Soil Fertility -- 3. A Short History of Seed Keeping -- 4. A History of Livestock and People -- 5. Insects, Illness, and Other Biological Contestations -- 6. Agricultural Labor -- 7. Peasants and the Peasantry -- 8. Women in Agriculture -- Part II. Modern Essentials -- 9. Mechanization in Agriculture -- 10. The Growing Power of Agricultural Science -- 11. Expert and Knowledge Networks -- 12. Commodity Frontiers as Drivers of Global Capitalism -- 13. Worker Health in Modern Agriculture -- Part III. Exemplary Commodities -- 14. Corn -- 15. Wheat -- 16. Rice -- 17. Soy -- 18. Sugar -- 19. Coffee -- 20. Bananas -- 21. Potatoes -- 22. Cotton -- 23. Tobacco -- 24. Silk: A Reconsideration of "Failure" in Sericulture -- Part IV. Key Transitions and Challenges -- 25. Watershed Moments: Turning Points in Hydro-Agricultural Development -- 26. The Islamic Agricultural Revolution -- 27. Wet Rice in East Asia: A Long Revolution -- 28. The Atlantic Plantation -- 29. Agriculture, the Atlantic Plantation, and the Environment in the US South -- 30. The British Agricultural Revolution -- 31. Frontier Agriculture and the Creation of Global Neo-Europes -- 32. Contestations over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa -- 33. The Global Green Revolution -- 34. Famine -- 35. Forest Transition Theory -- Index.
Content:
"After a long period of regional stability in crops and modes of production and important but limited expansion in some parts of the world, the so-called Age of Discovery set in motion forces that transformed agriculture, impacted indigenous populations in the western hemisphere, and made agriculture a global commodity. Even timeless essentials like seeds and soils have been subject to significant interventions. The modern essentials of agriculture -- such as the development of expert and knowledge networks -- contributed to a vast increase in agricultural output, but not without unanticipated costs. The use of the Columbian Exchange theory provides a useful way to explore the many exemplary commodities that burst on the global stage in the 15th and 16th centuries as well as others that made a late entry into the pantheon of global agricultural commodities. Finally, the concept of key transitions in agriculture provides a structure to the discussion of pivotal innovations that led to significant change, such as the wet Rice agriculture. It also speaks to the rise of the Atlantic Plantation and the Green Revolution and the costs imposed on indigenous populations and the environment"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190924164
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Oxford handbook of agricultural history New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024 ISBN 9780190924164
Language:
English
Author information:
Whayne, Jeannie M. 1948-
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