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In 1988, Wallace Olsen began the Core Literature Project at Mann Library. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Olsen assembled groups of scholars at Cornell University and across the US to determine what the core books and journals in the broad range of subjects relating to agriculture were, both current and historical. [1]
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. [1]
This category is for articles on history books with agriculture as a topic. Pages in category "History books about agriculture" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
An important early Chinese book on agriculture is the Qimin Yaoshu of AD 535, written by Jia Sixie. [88] Jia's writing style was straightforward and lucid relative to the elaborate and allusive writing typical of the time.
Books about agriculture, an activity which encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization , whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities .
Pages in category "History of agriculture" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. ... Local history book; Loy (spade) M. Agriculture in ...
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Young produced around 25 books and pamphlets on agriculture and 15 books on political economy, as well as many articles. These include: A Six Weeks Tour Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales; The Farmer’s Letters to the People of England, 1768. The farmer's guide in hiring and stocking farms. London, 1770.
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