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So shall you reap : farming and crops in human affairs
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solbrig, Otto Thomas, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Agriculture--History.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
- Traditional farming--History.
- Traditional farming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Island Press, 2013.
- [Place of publication not identified] Island Press 1994
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- So Shall You Reap is a broad-gauged exploration of the intersections of farming and history. Beginning with the prehistorical era, Otto and Dorothy Solbrig describe the evolution of farming. When and how did people learn to irrigate, to fertilize, to rotate their crops — and why? Along with its fundamental importance to history, farming has radically altered the physical world. Natural landscapes have been completely transformed to provide room for growth on a large scale of a few species of plants and even fewer species of domesticated animals. Agriculture has altered the earth's biosphere and changed its geosphere: The soil has been modified, forests have been felled, swamps have been drained, rivers have been dammed and diverted. So Shall You Reap presents a fresh and informed perspective on how farming and the crops we grow have changed us and our environment. By understanding the nature of the origins and evolution of agriculture, we will be better prepared to anticipate what the future may hold in store, and what must be done to increase food production while minimizing environmental problems.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- CHAPTER 1 Early Food Acquisition
- CHAPTER 2 From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers
- CHAPTER 3 Early Agriculture
- CHAPTER 4 Domesticating Plants
- CHAPTER 5 The Rise of Civilization
- CHAPTER 6 Agriculture Spreads to Europe
- CHAPTER 7 The Medieval Farm
- CHAPTER 8 Sugarcane and lndustrial Agriculture
- CHAPTER 9 Exchanges
- CHAPTER 10 A New Kind of Farm
- CHAPTER 11 Contemporary Farming
- CHAPTER 12 The Future of Food
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781610913263
- 1610913264
- OCLC:
- 1244621209
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