Category: Food Production in History
Books that focus on how humans organize themselves to acquire the energy to survive. Many of these books focus on how this struggle is foundational to human history.
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel
Book Summary: “Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers” by Robert Kelly
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood
Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy
Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
