Giovanni Federico

Feeding the World

An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000

Buch

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a comprehensive history of world agriculture during this period, explains how these feats were accomplished. Feeding the World synthesizes two hundred years of agricultural development throughout the world, providing all essential data and extensive references to the literature. It covers, systematically, all the factors that have affected agricultur… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-13853-4
EAN: 9780691138534
Produktnummer: 3829637
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 406 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.3 cm 651 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 651

Über den Autor

Giovanni Federico is Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute. He has written extensively on Italian and comparative economic history, with special attention on agriculture, trade, and trade policy. He is the author of An Economic History of the Silk Industry and the coauthor of The Growth of the Italian Economy, 1820-1940.