Alan. L Olmstead

Creating Abundance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues biological innovations played a crucial, if unheralded, role in American agricultural development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9780521857116
• ISBN-10: 0521857112
• Artikelnr.: 23882530

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.