The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780190924164
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages672 pages
- Size 231x170x55 mm
- Weight 1225 g
- Language English 723
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Short description:
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.
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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. History is replete with stories of armies standing or falling as a result of their supply of agriculturally produced commodities. Civilizations have likewise succumbed because of famine or crop-related pestilence, highlighting the critical nature of agriculture to both regional and global society. The importance and fragility of agricultural systems will come into much greater focus because of climate change in the twenty-first century, something farmers the world over have begun to reckon with. As its implications are manifested in droughts and floods that hamper crop production, urban people will become ever more conscious of their own reliance upon agriculture.
The contemporary critical evaluation of agriculture reflects a transition from a framework that celebrated the positive aspects of the evolution of agriculture to one that also explores its negative implications, such as the emergence of intensive and extractive agriculture that has worked to the detriment of indigenous peoples and disrupted traditional political economies.
The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History reflects this rebirth and examines the wide-reaching implications of agricultural issues, bringing together the many historiographical traditions within geographic regions across the world that intersect either directly or indirectly in terms of agricultural history. Contributors to this volume include historians from around the world and specialists in European, American, African, Middle East, Russian, and Asian history. Essays 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. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History is an essential volume for those interested in the myriad ways that agricultural systems affect our world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Jeannie Whayne
Part I. Timeless Essentials
1. Land
Frank Uekötter
2. Soil Fertility
Laura Drinkwater
3. A Short History of Seed Keeping
Helen Anne Curry
4. A History of Livestock and People
Claire Strom
5. Agricultural Contestation: The Case of Locusts
Martha Few
6. Agricultural Labor
Steve Striffler
7. Peasants and the Peasantry: Persistence, Reform or Extinction?
Jonathan Rigg
8. Women in Agriculture
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Part II. Modern Essentials
9. Mechanization of Agriculture
R. Douglas Hurt
10. Agricultural Science
J.L. Anderson
11. Expert and Knowledge Networks
Deborah Fitzgerald
12. Commodity Frontiers as Drivers of Global Capitalism
Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute
13. Worker Health in Modern Agriculture
Michitake Aso
Part III. Exemplary Commodities
14. Corn: From Versatile Staple to Global ?Flex? Crop
Elizabeth Fitting
15. Wheat
Tom Isern
16. Rice
Peter A. Coclanis
17. Soy: The Making of a Global Commodity
Ernst Langthaler
18. Sugar
Suzanne Moon
19. Coffee: The Promise and Perils of a Global Commodity
Stuart McCook
20. Bananas
Evan P. Bennett
21. Potatoes that Changed the World
Christopher Shepherd
22. Cotton
Jonathan Robbins
23. Tobacco
Melissa N. Morris
24. The Silkscape of California: A Reconsideration of ?Failure? in Sericulture
Lisa Onaga
Part IV. Key Transitions or Challenges
25. Turning Points in Hydro-Agricultural Development
Christopher L. Pastore
26. The Islamic Agricultural Revolution
Michael J. Decker
27. Wet Rice in East Asia: A Long Revolution
Francesca Bray
28. The Atlantic Plantation
Trevor Burnard
29. Agriculture, the Atlantic Plantation, and the Environment in the U.S. South
Jeannie Whayne
30. The British Agricultural Revolution
Richard Hoyle
31. Frontier Agriculture and the Creation of Global Neo-Europes
Jonathan Daly
32. Contestation over Agricultural Production in Colonial Africa
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
33. The Global Green Revolution
Mark B. Tauger
34. Famine
Jenny Leigh Smith
35. Forest Transition Theory
Brett Bennett and Gregory Barton
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