A history of world agriculture
Subtitle: from the neolithic age to the current crisis
By: Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart ; translated by James H. Membrez
Contributors: Roudart, Laurence
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781844073993; 9781844074006
Subjects: Agriculture; History
Description: This text provides an analysis of the rise of agriculture & its handmaid - civilization itself. From the Near East & Egypt to China, the Americas & medieval & modern Europe, it traces the rise of agriculture & examines the tapestry of the social & economic structures it nurtured & attempts to show how this wealth is endangered.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.