
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
