Agriculture in World History (Themes in World History)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415773873 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. All undergraduate students and general readers.' L. Reviewed in 2011aug CHOICE. 'This is a valuable and accessible study that teachers and students will find useful.' – Richard Brown, Historical Association'Recommended. Cline, Missouri State University
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. His work has won the Eric Wolf Prize of the Journal of Peasant Studies and the Wayne D. He has published extensively on famines and agriculture in the USSR and India. Rasmussen Award of the Agricultural History Society. Tauger is an associate professor of history at West Virginia University, USA. Mark B
Tauger looks at farmers, farming, and their relationships to non-farmers from the classical societies of the Mediterranean and China through to the twenty-first century. Civilization from its origins has depended on the food, fibre, and other commodities produced by farmers. In particular, the book highlights the complexities of recent decades: increased food production, declining numbers of farmers, and environmental, economic, and political challenges to increasing food production against the demands of a growing population. Viewing farmers as the most important human interface between civilization and the natural world, Agriculture in World History examines the ways that urban societies have both exploited and supported farmers, and together have endured the environmental changes and crises that threat