Agriculture & Farming

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin Ameri...

During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both, revolutionaries promised to ...

This volume offers to scholars of 18th-century social, economic, and cultural history an annotated listing of more than a thousand titles written a...

A public policy is no more than a statement of intent until, and unless, it is successfully implemented through often complex administrative proces...

This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture su...

A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial ...

Country names are used to describe people who were--or are--engaged in agricultural pursuits. They indicate status, occupation, duties, geographica...

Written from both the librarian's and scientist's point of view, this book is a comprehensive guide to conducting searches of scientific, agricultu...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk Pr...

The nine essays presented by John R. Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains....

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The 1970s saw unprecedented change in the laws governing the activities of the Forest Service. This study focuses on the legislative process and th...

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A history of British colonial agriculture, 1492-1948.

As the potential global impact of forest destruction and degradation becomes better understood, the link between poverty and deforestation in devel...

During this century, hundreds of billions of pounds of pesticides have been released to the global environment. How are we exposed to them? What ca...

A fresh interdisciplinary analysis of rural society and agrarian issues   This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the stud...

A burning mix of diesel fuel and gasoline drips from handheld canisters onto the ground. Slowly a line of fire begins to creep downhill. The flames...

This book, the result of the author's experience in psychology and forestry studies, studies the relation between these two seemingly different dis...