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Dust Bowl
Oxford University Press, USA 2004; US$ 16.99In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field... more...
Locally Grown
Agate Publishing 2012; US$ 22.95An exploration of 25 small, sustainability-minded farms throughout the Midwest, told through full-color photographs, interviews with the farmers, and vivid stories of the past, present, and future of the region's local farms and how they're intertwined with the Chicago culinary scene more...
The Next Green Revolution
Haworth Press 2001; US$ 69.95Here is an easy-to-read, practical introduction to sustainable agriculture: what it means and why it is needed. It is the first book to synthesize the goals of sustainable agriculture into eight comprehensive steps. The Next Green Revolution presents a convincing critique of our current agricultural system and an introduction to an alternative system... more...
Development of American Agriculture
University of Minnesota Press 1993; US$ 82.50The classic historical study of American agricultural economic development, thoroughly revised and updated. more...
American Farm Policy, 1948-1973
University of Minnesota Press 1972; US$ 29.50This is basically a reference book. It seeks to record and explain what we did in the United States in the farm policy area between 1948 and 1973... more...
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 44.99Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth's environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans impose their... more...
Bringing It to the Table
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 14.95Only a farmer could delve so deeply into the origins of food, and only a writer of Wendell Berry?s caliber could convey it with such conviction and eloquence. Long before Whole Foods organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, Berry has embodied mindful eating... more...
The Timber Bubble that Burst
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 99.99This is a book about bubble prices, and their consequences, in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest from 1979-1984. Bubble prices--unusual and rapid rises (and eventual drops) in the prices of a commodity--have been of theoretical interest to economists for many years. This study examines the unusual movements in the price of federal timber... more...
Roots of Change
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 24.95Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship is rising again, this time in the form of sustainable and organic growers, cooperatives, artisans, and visionaries?those who seek to enhance the quality of life and ensure its future on the farm, in the community, and... more...
Persistence and Change in Rural Communities
CABI 2002; US$ 99.95In the 1930s and 1940s the US Department of Agriculture undertook detailed studies of 6 US rural communities representing various patterns of social and economic change that were affecting rural America. These studies became classics in the literature on rural communities, and have helped to develop theoretical perspectives in community sociology. more...









