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Tag: Agriculture

October 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Rice Almanac” by Maclean, Hardy and Hettel

September 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

September 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

September 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 18, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil

April 9, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg

April 7, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel

April 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

March 30, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart

March 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper

January 27, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood

January 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood

May 12, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 11, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager

May 8, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 24, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan

April 21, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett

April 10, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Economic Outcomes in Africa” by Michalopoulos, Putterman & Weil

April 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development” by Olsson and Hibbs

April 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett

March 31, 2020March 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta

March 31, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison

March 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon

January 24, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path” by Michael Mitteraur

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