Primary Industries

Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, ph...

On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine and killed twenty-nine miners. This tragedy was the deadliest m...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Small-scale fisheries make up a large proportion of world's fisheries, both by catch and participation. Effective management is essential to ensure...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The...

Ambrogio Folonari is acknowledged as the undisputed father of the renaissance of Italian winemaking. He has devoted his entire life to the pursuit ...

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Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet indu...

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet indu...

Changing how we produce our food can be a huge win in overcoming climate change, argues Recipe for a Livable Plane. This may sound hard to achieve....

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inha...

Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of th...

As oil-rich Mexico faces the 1980s, conflicts between agrarian populism and capitalist industrialization call for resolution. The internal peace an...

Looking for instructional material to help extend the shelf life of your crops? Look no further. Drying is one of the main preservation techniques...

World coal production will increase up to 2040 and world energy consumption will be very much dependent on coal. For a better planning of coal mini...

This book offers a research-based, holistic overview of the entire value chain of the global food industry. It captures and defines over 80 contemp...

Farming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who ...

Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfish...

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theor...

Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing p...

The Larder of the Wise: The Story of Vancouvers James Inglis Reid Ltd. traces the history of the iconic store whose traditional Scottish fare and w...