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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.

May 12, 2020May 14, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum

January 24, 2020February 6, 2020 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?” by Michael Mitteraur

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