Tag: Agriculture
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: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil
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: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper
Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood
Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood
Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy
Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager
Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan
Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
Article Summary: “Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Economic Outcomes in Africa” by Michalopoulos, Putterman & Weil
Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon
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