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Agriculture in World History

By: Mark B Tauger(Author)
197 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Routledge
Agriculture in World History
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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 21st century.

From its origins, civilization has depended on the food, fiber, and other goods produced by farmers. This book illustrates how urban societies both exploited and supported farmers, and together endured economic and environmental crises. Viewing farmers as the crucial interface between civilization and the natural world, Mark Tauger examines the environmental changes, political and social transformations, and scientific and technological developments in farming. The second edition draws attention to the modern period, particularly the effects of war, depression, and authoritarianism on world agriculture, scientific advances and the problems they created, increased international competition between countries with the expanding role of corporations, the threats posed by climate change, and some of agriculture's future prospects. Accessibly written and following a chronological structure, Agriculture in World History enables readers to easily gain a foundational understanding of an important aspect of world history.

This survey will be an indispensable text for world history students and for anyone interested in the historical development of the present agricultural and food crises.

Contents

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 19th 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

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Biography

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.

By: Mark B Tauger(Author)
197 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Routledge
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'This is a valuable and accessible study that teachers and students will find useful.' -- Richard Brown, Historical Association 'Recommended. All undergraduate students and general readers.' L. S. Cline, Missouri State University. Reviewed in 2011aug CHOICE

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