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The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989by William Gervase Clarence-Smith; Steven Topik
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 44.00For five hundred years coffee has been grown in tropical countries for consumption in temperate regions. This volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies, with a special emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. more...
Documenting Domesticationby Melinda A. Zeder; Daniel G. Bradley; Eve Emshwiller; Bruce D. Smith
University of California Press 2006; US$ 80.00Agriculture is the lever with which humans transformed the earth over the last 10,000 years and created new forms of plant and animal species that have forever altered the face of the planet. In the last decade, significant technological and methodological advances in both molecular biology and archaeology have revolutionized the study of plant and animal domestication and are reshaping our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming, one of the major turning points in human history. This groundbreaking volume for the first time brings together leading archaeologists and biologists working on the domestication of both plants and animals to consider a wide variety of archaeological and genetic approaches to tracing the origin and... more...
The Origins of Agricultureby C. Wesley Cowan; Paul Minnis; Deborah M. Pearsall; Bruce D. Smith; Robin W. Dennell; Gary W. Crawford; Jack R. Harlan; Emily McClung de Tapia; Naomi F. Miller; Patty Jo Watson
The University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 23.96The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan. more...
Rivers of Changeby Bruce D. Smith
The University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 32.00Organized into four sections, the twelve chapters of Rivers of Change are concerned with prehistoric Native American societies in eastern North America and their transition from a hunting and gathering way of life to a reliance on food production. Written at different times over a decade, the chapters vary both in length and topical focus. They are joined together, however, by a number of shared “rivers of change.” more...
Dying on the Vineby Jr. George D. Gale
University of California Press 2011; US$ 39.95Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine?s worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860s, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California?laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world?s vineyards and, with years of observation and research, developed a strategy of resistance. Among other topics, the book discusses phylloxera as an important case study of how... more...
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