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Creating Abundance
Taschenbuch von Alan L. Olmstead (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This book argues biological innovations played a crucial, if unheralded, role in American agricultural development.
This book argues biological innovations played a crucial, if unheralded, role in American agricultural development.
Über den Autor
Alan L. Olmstead is Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs, Professor of Economics, and member of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is one of the six editors-in-chief of Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (2006), and his writings appear regularly in the leading economics and history journals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. The red queen and the hard reds: productivity growth in American wheat, 1800-1940; 3. Corn: America's crop; 4. Cotton: variety innovation and the making of king cotton; 5. Weevils, worms, and wilts: the red queen's cotton playground; 6. The other revolution in the cotton economy: cotton's revival in the twentieth century; 7. That 'stinking weed of America': the evolution of tobacco production; 8. California: creating a cornucopia; 9. Livestock in the farm economy; 10. Defining and redesigning America's livestock; 11. Nature's perfect food: inventing the modern dairy industry; 12. Draft power; 13. Conclusion: tying it together.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521673877
ISBN-10: 0521673879
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Olmstead, Alan L.
Rhode, Paul W.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Alan L. Olmstead (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2008
Gewicht: 0,7 kg
preigu-id: 101806955
Über den Autor
Alan L. Olmstead is Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs, Professor of Economics, and member of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is one of the six editors-in-chief of Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (2006), and his writings appear regularly in the leading economics and history journals.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. The red queen and the hard reds: productivity growth in American wheat, 1800-1940; 3. Corn: America's crop; 4. Cotton: variety innovation and the making of king cotton; 5. Weevils, worms, and wilts: the red queen's cotton playground; 6. The other revolution in the cotton economy: cotton's revival in the twentieth century; 7. That 'stinking weed of America': the evolution of tobacco production; 8. California: creating a cornucopia; 9. Livestock in the farm economy; 10. Defining and redesigning America's livestock; 11. Nature's perfect food: inventing the modern dairy industry; 12. Draft power; 13. Conclusion: tying it together.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 488
ISBN-13: 9780521673877
ISBN-10: 0521673879
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Olmstead, Alan L.
Rhode, Paul W.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Alan L. Olmstead (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2008
Gewicht: 0,7 kg
preigu-id: 101806955
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