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Title: Ecological Hist Of Agriculture 10000 Bc-Ad 10000
Condition: New
Author: Daniel Vasey
Contributor: Daniel Vasey (Notes by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781557532725
ISBN: 9781557532725
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Release Date: 06/30/1992
Description: An Ecological History of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 10,000 opens with the first known agriculture and ends in a future in which we might have to use fewer resources to feed more people. The book describes past and present agriculture and looks at future possibilities.

Using environment, population, and available energy sources as the principal determinants of agricultural systems, this is the first survey to cover preindustrial agriculture and pastoralism on all inhabited continents and from equatorial forest to tundra. The tropics present a tapestry: slash-and-burn in the forests, multistoried gardens of trees and annuals, combinations of cultivation and nomadic pastoralism, and a variety of "wet" systems on land that is part field and part swamp. The parallels among dry lands and dry summer lands are striking; peoples thousands of miles apart evolve like means to divert, deliver, and conserve water. In humid temperate climes there is more divergence than convergence; East Asians, Europeans, and American Indians find very different ways to exploit similar environments.

An Ecological History of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 10,000 will be of special interest to agriculturalists, agricultural historians, anthropologists, geographers, and anyone concerned with agriculture and its history.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Release Year: 1992

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