The Social History of Agriculture: From the Origin to the Current Crisis

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This innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history from the perspective of food and farmers. From the earliest to the present, the history of agriculture was traced back to Christopher Issett and Stephen Miller who believed that people, not markets, were the main medium for agricultural transformation. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the context of broader markets, nations, wars, environments, population growth, and similar factors. The author emphasizes greater social and political power to inform decision-making and Lead to different technological achievements. Farmers and elites respond in ways that impede economic development. When able to trade with towns, farmers use their income to gain more land and security. Elites use business opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. This book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; pre-Colombian colonies; early modern France, Britain and Japan; slavery in the New World; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba and many other periods and locations. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not purely technical derivatives but are the result of decisions and choices that people have made and continue to make.



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