Europe S Green Revolution And Its Successors

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How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘green revolutions’ in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers. This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the late nineteenth century through its fate under National Socialism. Harwood uses this historical case study in order to argue that peasant-friendly research has an important role to play in future Green Revolutions.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Jonathan Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-05-04
File : 290 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136307461


Moving Crops And The Scales Of History

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A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but approachable attempt to redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop. The cropscape is a method of reconnecting the global with the local, the longue durée with microhistory, and people, plants, and places with abstract concepts such as tastes, ideas, skills, politics, and economic forces. Through investigating a range of contrasting cropscapes spanning millennia and the globe, the authors break open traditional historical structures of period, geography, and direction to glean insight into previously invisible actors and forces.

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Genre : History
Author : Francesca Bray
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 2023-02-14
File : 353 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780300268423


Agriculture In Capitalist Europe 1945 1960

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In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.

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Genre : History
Author : Carin Martiin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-06-17
File : 303 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781315465920


The Oxford Handbook Of Agricultural History

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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. 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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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Jeannie Whayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2024-02-08
File : 673 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780190924164


Forces Of Change

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Genre : History
Author : Henry Hobhouse
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Release : 1989
File : 278 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015014753126


Green Revolution

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Genre : Collective settlements
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Release : 1972
File : 116 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:32000000334849


Human Ecology

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Genre : Ecology
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Release : 1995
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924067911010


Europe S Green Revolution And Others Since

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This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the nineteenth century through its fate under National Socialism, arguing that peasant-friendly research has an important role to play in future Green Revolutions.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Jonathan Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012
File : 290 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780415598682


Social Sciences Index

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Genre : Periodicals
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Release : 1997
File : 2536 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B5121549


The Story Of Civilization The Age Of Napoleon A History Of European Civilization From 1789 To 1815

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Genre : Civilization
Author : Will Durant
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Release : 1935
File : 978 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015007039137