{"product_id":"agriculture-in-the-tropics-an-elementary-treatise-paperback-9781107600201","title":"Agriculture in the Tropics; An Elementary Treatise (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107600201","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgriculture in the Tropics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Elementary Treatise\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1922 book is intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. C. Willis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107600201, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.37 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. The book is structured around descriptions of these resources and their potential for future development, numerous illustrative figures are also included. Because the text is written from a broadly colonial perspective, such development is largely seen in terms of an engagement between the modernising influence of dominant states and the 'primitive' environments over which they hold sway. This volume will be illuminating for anyone with an interest in agriculture, botany, or the colonial mindset.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Preliminaries to Agriculture: 1. Land and soil\u003cbr\u003e 2. Climate\u003cbr\u003e 3. Population and labour\u003cbr\u003e 4. Transport and capital\u003cbr\u003e 5. Drainage and irrigation\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tools, tillage, manuring, chopping, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 7. Plant life in the tropics. Acclimatisation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Agriculture in the tropics in primitive times, and its gradual change\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Principal Cultivations of the Tropics: 9. Rice and other cereals and food plants\u003cbr\u003e 10. Sugar\u003cbr\u003e 11. Teas\u003cbr\u003e 12. Coffee, cacao or chocolate, kola, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 13. Coconuts and other palms\u003cbr\u003e 14. Spices\u003cbr\u003e 15. Fruits and vegetables\u003cbr\u003e 16. Tobacco, opium, hemp\u003cbr\u003e 17. Cinchona and other drugs\u003cbr\u003e 18. Fibre-yielding plants\u003cbr\u003e 19. Dye stuffs and tanning substances\u003cbr\u003e 20. Oil-yielding plants\u003cbr\u003e 21. Indiarubber, guttapercha, and camphor\u003cbr\u003e 22. Mixed garden cultivation by tropical natives\u003cbr\u003e 23. The diseases of plants in the tropics, and their treatment\u003cbr\u003e 24. Stock\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Agriculture in the Tropics (General): 25. Village or peasant agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 26. The relations of the peasant to the land and crops, cultural systems, etc.\u003cbr\u003e 27. The financing of village agriculture, and the provision of local markets\u003cbr\u003e 28. The crops and methods of peasant agriculture, and their possibilities of improvement\u003cbr\u003e 29. Education of the peasant, and its bearing upon agricultural progress\u003cbr\u003e 30. Capitalist or estate agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 31. The agricultural needs of the planting enterprise. Summary of Part III\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Agricultural Organisation and Policy: 32. Organisation of agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 33. Agricultural policy\u003cbr\u003e 34. Departments of agriculture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Historical geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20geography%20%5BHBTP%5D%22\"\u003eHBTP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265778405656,"sku":"9781107600201","price":23.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107600201i_47ebe874-0916-4773-96c2-d235b5b102e0.jpg?v=1696766458","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/agriculture-in-the-tropics-an-elementary-treatise-paperback-9781107600201","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}