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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Isett, Christopher Mills, author.     Miller, Stephen, author.     Subjects     Agriculture -- History -- Case studies.     Agriculture -- Social aspects -- History. -- Case studies.     Agriculture     Agriculture -- Social aspects     Browse Catalog     by author:      Isett, Christopher Mills, author.      Miller, Stephen, author.       by title:      The Social history o...         MARC Display

The Social history of agriculture : from the origins to the current crisis / Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller. by Isett, Christopher Mills, author., Miller, Stephen, author. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] Description:  xvi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents:  Settled agriculture: the ancient origins of community, state, and empire -- From antiquity to the eve of agrarian capitalism: peasants and dynastic states -- Agrarian capitalism in the early modern world: divergence in Eurasia -- Malthusian limits in the early modern world: peasants and markets -- The new world: planters, slaves, and sugar -- American farming: Agrarian roots of U.S. capitalism -- New imperialism: colonial agriculture in the age of capitalism -- Socialist agriculture: collectivization in three countries -- Late development: state-led agrarian change after World War II -- Corporate agriculture: comparing Brazil and the United States. Summary:  This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the world history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller argue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make. ---Provided by publisher. Genre:  Case studies. Case studies. Case studies.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 630 Ise 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 630 Ise 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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