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  • - People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
    av Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt & Gopa Samanta
    1 110,-

  • - The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
    av Michael Goldman
    896,-

    Examines the inner workings of the World Bank, the foundations of its global achievements, its propensity for intensifying the problems it intends to cure, and its remarkable ability to tame criticism and extend its own reach.

  • - The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
    av Deborah Fitzgerald
    476,-

    During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism.Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the country of industrial or corporate farms. She looks at how farming was affected by this revolution and concludes by following several agricultural enthusiasts to the Soviet Union, where the lessons of industrial farming were studied.

  • av Jamie Kreiner
    540,-

    "An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy. In the early medieval West, from North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture. In this fascinating book, Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them. In this world, even the smallest things could have far-reaching consequences. Kreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals-and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes, their fiscal policies, and their very identities. In the end, even the pig's own identity was transformed: at the close of the early Middle Ages, it had become a riveting metaphor for Christianity itself."--

  • - A History of Revolutionary Haiti
    av Johnhenry Gonzalez
    556,-

    A new history of post-Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world's most successful slave revolution

  • - Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism
    av Hannah Holleman
    456,-

  • - Child Runaways in India
    av Jonah Steinberg
    726,-

  • - Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge
    av James C. Scott
    490,-

    This work contains ten chapters on rural society and agrarian issues, encompassing various disciplines, historical periods, and regions of the world. It examines such topics as poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, ritual life, co-operation and state action.

  • - The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
    av Catherine A. Corson
    976,-

    A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent millions of dollars to preserve Madagascar's rich biological diversity. Yet its habitats are still in decline. Studying forty years of policy making in multiple sites, Catherine Corson reveals how blaming impoverished Malagasy farmers for Madagascar's environmental decline has avoided challenging other drivers of deforestation, such as the logging and mining industries. In this important ethnographic study, Corson reveals how Madagascar's environmental program reflects the transformation of global environmental governance under neoliberalism.

  • av Carl Death
    526,-

  • - Principles and Applications in Research Practices
    av Devra I. Jarvis, Toby Hodgkin & Anthony H. D. Brown
    606,-

    Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding, genetics, anthropology, economics, and policy, this invaluable resource places farmer-managed crop biodiversity squarely in the center of the science needed to feed the world and restore health to our productive landscapes. It will prove to be an essential tool in the training of agricultural and environmental scientists seeking the solutions necessary to ensure healthy, resilient ecosystems for future generations.

  • - Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963
    av Jenny Leigh Smith
    980,-

    This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and environmentally devastating for the entire Soviet period. Yet assigning the blame exclusively to Soviet planners would be off the mark. The real story is much more complicated and interesting, Jenny Leigh Smith reveals in this deeply researched book. Using case studies from five Soviet regions, she acknowledges hubris and shortsightedness where it occurred but also gives fair consideration to the difficulties encountered and the successes-however modest-that were achieved.

  • av Felix Wemheuer
    760,-

    During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

  • - Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
    av Drew A. Swanson
    590,-

  • - Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia
    av Sara M. Gregg
    546,-

  • - Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
    av Timothy Pachirat
    410,-

  • - How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand
    av J. Gary Taylor
    746,-

    'Smart Alliance' tells the story of how Chiquita, formerly the notorious United Fruit Company, reinvented itself as an ally of conservation and together with the Rainforest Alliance set about establishing a 'Better Banana' seal of approval to certify genuine efforts to protect the environment.

  • - Institutional Design and Behavioral Responses
    av Stephen K. Wegren
    816,-

    This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russias land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and agricultural production.The aim of Russian land reform for the past thirty yearsto undo the collectivization of the Soviet era and encourage public ownershiphas been largely unsuccessful. To understand this failure, Stephen Wegren examines contemporary land reform policies in terms of legislation, institutional structure, and human behavior. Using extensive survey data, he analyzes household behaviors in regard to land ownership and usage based on socioeconomic status, family size, demographic distribution, and regional differences. Wegrens study is important and timely, as Russian land reform will have a profound effect on Russias ability to compete in an era of globalization.

  • - Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
    av Parker MacDonald Shipton
    946,-

    Drawing on research among Luo people in western Kenya and abroad, this book examines how Luo assess obligations to intimates and strangers, including the dead and the not-yet-born. It focuses on nonmonetary forms of exchange and entrustment, moving beyond anthropology's traditional understanding of gifts, loans, and reciprocity.

  • - Politics and the Making of Moral Capital in the Philippines
    av Raymond L. Bryant
    676,-

    Why are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today’s world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel theoretical perspective around the concept of moral capital and assesses that concept through in-depth case studies of NGOs in the Philippines.The book’s focus is on perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic and how such perceptions can translate into social power. Bryant examines the ambiguous qualities of NGO strategizing, the ways in which the quest for moral capital is bedeviled by the need to compromise with political and economic elites, and the possibilities for NGOs to achieve political goals as moral leaders.

  • - African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
    av Andrew Sluyter
    1 030,-

  • - What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
    av Alissa Hamilton
    456,-

  • - Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
    av Brian Donahue
    636,-

    From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. This collection presents a complex historical portrait of the American character through its relationship to the land.

  • - U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
    av Bill Winders
    420,-

    This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.

  • - Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside
    av Benjamin R. Cohen
    476,-

    Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, this book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.

  • - Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan
    av Shafqat Hussain
    980,-

  • - Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
    av Jessica Barnes
    520,-

  • - A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
    av Michael R. Dove
    980,-

    "The Hikayat Banjar", a 17th-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. This title employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system.

  • av David W. Lesch, Michael Woolcock & Rachael Diprose
    790,-

  • - Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
    av Alon Tal
    980,-

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