
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: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham

Book Summary: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage

Book Summary: “Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World” by Alice Roberts

Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon

Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries

Book Summary: “An Introduction to Agricultural Geography” by David Grigg

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
