Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Lisa Deutsch

The Soybean Through World History

Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780367406318
• ISBN-10: 0367406314
• Artikelnr.: 67680573

Autorenporträt

Matilda Baraibar Norberg is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Sweden. Lisa Deutsch is Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Combining insights from political economy and environmental history:
what can the soybean tell us about changes in the global agrofood system?
2. The first soybean cycle (domestication to 900 CE)
3. The second soybean cycle (1000-1860)
4. The roots of the third soybean cycle (1860-1949)
5. The regime of the third soybean cycle (1950-today)
6. Historicizing soy: towards a new rupture?