Bread, beer and the seeds of change
Subtitle: agriculture's impact on world history
By: Thomas R. Sinclair, Carol Janas Sinclair.
Contributors: Sinclair, Carol Janas.
Publisher: CAB International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845937041; 9781845937058
Subjects: Agriculture -- History; Food -- History; Crop science -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why agriculture?; title: What crops to grow?; title: Basics of beer and bread; title: Human nutrition and diet; title: Cropping 101: water, nitrogen, weed control; title: Sumerians (3500 to 2334 BCE); title: Egyptians (3000 to 1070 BCE); title: Chinese (221 BCE to 220 CE); title: Bantu of Africa (400 BCE to 300 CE); title: Maya (150 BCE to 910 CE); title: Athenians (550 to 338 BCE) / Romans (509 BCE to 410 CE); title: Feudal Europeans (800 to 1347); title: British (1700 to 1850); title: Development of science and technology (1850 to 1950); title: Americans (1950 to present); title: Epilogue: future of grain fermentation.