A history of world agriculture : from the neolithic age to the current crisis / Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart ; translated by James H. Membrez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazoyer, Marcel, 1933- author.

Roudart, Laurence, author.

Contributor:

Membrez, James H., translator.

Standardized Title:

Histoire des agricultures du monde. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--History.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Place of Publication:

2014.

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2006]

Summary:

Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways i

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contens""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Humanity�s Agrarian Heritage""; ""2. A Theory of Agrarian Systems""; ""3. Agrarian Crisis and General Crisis""; ""4. The Plan of This Book""; ""1. Evolution, Agriculture, History""; ""1. Life, Evolution, and Agriculture""; ""2. Hominization and Agriculture""; ""3. The Concept of Agrarian Systems""; ""4. Biomass, Soil, and Fertility""; ""5. Agriculture and History""; ""2. The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution""; ""1. Centers of Origin of Neolithic Agriculture""; ""2. Areas of Extension""

""3. Domestication and Domesticability""""4. Conclusion""; ""3. Systems of Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in Forest Environments: Deforestation and the Formation of Post-Forest Agrarian Systems""; ""1. Formation of Systems of Slash-and-Burn Agriculture""; ""2. The Organization and Functioning of Slash-and-Burn Agricultural Systems""; ""3. The Dynamics of Slash-and-Burn Agricultural Systems""; ""4. Emergence and Differentiation of Post-Forest Agrarian Systems""; ""5. Problems of Development in Today�s Forest Agrarian Systems""

""4. The Evolution of Hydraulic Agrarian Systems in the Nile Valley""""1. The Original Ecosystem and the First Occupants of the Valley""; ""2. Basin and Winter Cultivation Systems""; ""3. Systems of Irrigated Cultivation""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""5. The Inca Agrarian System: A Mountain Agrarian System Composed of Complementary Subsystems at Different Elevations""; ""1. Historical Summary""; ""2. Agricultural Production and Trade in the Inca Empire""; ""3. Social Organization and the Role of the State""; ""4. The Destruction of Inca Society""; ""5. Installation of a Satellite Colonial Economy""

""6. Conclusion""""6. Agrarian Systems Based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation with the Ard in the Temperate Regions: The Agricultural Revolution in Antiquity""; ""1. The Origins of the System Based on Fallowing in the Temperate Regions""; ""2. Structure and Functioning of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using the Ard""; ""3. The Agrarian and Food Questions in Antiquity""; ""7. Agrarian Systems Based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation with the Plow in the Cold Temperate Regions: The Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages in Northwestern Europe""

""1. The Genesis of Cultivation Using the Animal-Drawn Plow""""2. Structure and Functioning of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using a Plow""; ""3. The Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages""; ""4. Causes and Consequences of the Agricultural Revolution: Demographic, Economic, Urban, and Cultural Growth""; ""5. The Crisis of Systems based on Fallowing and Animal-Drawn Cultivation Using the Plow and Its Later Reappearance""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""8. Agrarian Systems without Fallowing in the Temperate Regions: The First Agricultural Revolution of Modern Times""

""1. The Birth of the New Agriculture""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-505) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-58367-491-8

OCLC:

625973693