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Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Hardcover)
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Moving Crops and the Scales of History (Hardcover)
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the
“cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and
places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops
from one place to another have been a key driving force in history.
Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into
fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to
another. This book is a bold but approachable attempt to redefine
historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of
people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that
form around a crop. The cropscape is a method of
reconnecting the global with the local, the longue durée with
microhistory, and people, plants, and places with abstract concepts
such as tastes, ideas, skills, politics, and economic forces.
Through investigating a range of contrasting cropscapes spanning
millennia and the globe, the authors break open traditional
historical structures of period, geography, and direction to glean
insight into previously invisible actors and forces.
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