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The Social History of Agriculture
- From the Origins to the Current Crisis
- Narrated by: Ronald Bruce Meyer
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Categories: History, World
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Publisher's Summary
This 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, Isett and 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.
The book is published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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- Dominic Tweed
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Good book.
Excellent book. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the cotton industry in Togo.
It was almost worth giving Jeff Bezos £6 for. But I'll take comfort in the fact that, however obscenely rich he gets, he can't buy his hair back.