Agricultural Transformation

DescriptionFeeding the World chronicles the rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century. Trac...

Anthony Pereira introduces the country and idea of Brazil, from its depiction in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, to Brazil's colonial past, and the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

DescriptionChicago photographer Brad Temkin (born 1956) brings attention to the visual and ecological beauty of the transformation of water, by sho...

India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage. It has achieved multi-faceted socio-economic progress since In...

Considered by many to be the state's oldest permanent English settlement, Wethersfield is referred to in the Connecticut Code of 1650 as "ye most A...

Reducere. After the developments that the World War II era brought to the small agricultural community of Anaheim, the major transformation arrived in 1955. ...

Reducere. Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past...

Reducere. "A masterful overview of archaeological work on American gravestones and cemeteries that should be on the shelf of every student and scholar of mor...

Reducere. Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the on...

Reducere. The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aihwa OngIntroduction by: Carla FreemanIn the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capital...

Reducere. Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare p...

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitio...

The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It...

THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"A brilliant, beautiful book" (Sunday Times): the New York Times bestselling author of A Shepherd's Life chro...

Reducere. Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San D...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

A fresh look at American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the mean...

Reducere. During the reign of James I, an official scheme was drawn up for the 'plantation' of designated areas in west Ulster. However, the actual area sett...

DescriptionAdrian Bell was farming and writing during a period when the English countryside underwent its most significant transformation for hundr...