{"product_id":"creating-abundance-biological-innovation-and-american-agricultural-development-hardback-9780521857116","title":"Creating Abundance; Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development (Hardback) 9780521857116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreating Abundance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBiological Innovation and American Agricultural Development\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book argues biological innovations played a crucial, if unheralded, role in American agricultural development.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlan L. Olmstead (Author), Paul W. Rhode (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521857116, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 September 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages, 35 b\/w illus.  7 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… [there is] much to admire in what Olmstead and Rhode have done and - almost as importantly - how they have done it … generating new questions in a subject area that has for too long lain fallow.' The British Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land and labor productivity. Biological innovations were essential for the movement of agriculture onto new lands with more extreme climates, for maintaining production in the face of evolving threats from pests, and for the creation of the modern livestock sector. These innovations established the foundation for the subsequent Green and Genetic Revolutions. The book challenges the misconceptions that, before the advent of hybrid corn, American farmers single-mindedly invested in labor-saving mechanical technologies and that biological technologies were static.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The red queen and the hard reds: productivity growth in American wheat, 1800–1940\u003cbr\u003e 3. Corn: America's crop\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cotton: variety innovation and the making of king cotton\u003cbr\u003e 5. Weevils, worms, and wilts: the red queen's cotton playground\u003cbr\u003e 6. The other revolution in the cotton economy: cotton's revival in the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e 7. That 'stinking weed of America': the evolution of tobacco production\u003cbr\u003e 8. California: creating a cornucopia\u003cbr\u003e 9. Livestock in the farm economy\u003cbr\u003e 10. Defining and redesigning America's livestock\u003cbr\u003e 11. Nature's perfect food: inventing the modern dairy industry\u003cbr\u003e 12. Draft power\u003cbr\u003e 13. Conclusion: tying it together.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\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":46265260966168,"sku":"9780521857116","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521857116i.jpg?v=1692021074","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creating-abundance-biological-innovation-and-american-agricultural-development-hardback-9780521857116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}