The social history of agriculture : from the origins to the current crisis

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The social history of agriculture : from the origins to the current crisis

Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller

Rowman & Littlefield, c2017

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references(p.357-374) and index

Maps: ix-xiv

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内容説明

This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the 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.

目次

Introduction Chapter 1: Settled Agriculture: The Ancient Origins of Community, State, and Empire Chapter 2: From Antiquity to the Eve of Agrarian Capitalism: Peasants and Dynastic States Chapter 3: Agrarian Capitalism in the Early Modern World: Divergence in Eurasia Chapter 4: Malthusian Limits in the Early Modern World: Peasants and Markets Chapter 5: The New World: Planters, Slaves, and Sugar Chapter 6: American Farming: Agrarian Roots of U.S. Capitalism Chapter 7: New Imperialism: Colonial Agriculture in the Age of Capitalism Chapter 8: Socialist Agriculture: Collectivization in Three Countries Chapter 9: Late Development: State-led Agrarian Change after World War II Chapter 10: Corporate Agriculture: Comparing the United States and Brazil Conclusion

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