Europe's Green Revolution and its Successors
The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding
How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent 'green revolutions' in which systematic attempts were made to promote the adoption of technological innovation by peasant-farmers. This book focuses on the development of public-sector plant-breeding in Germany from the late nineteenth century through its fate under National Socialism. Harwood uses this historical case study in order to argue that peasan…
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- ISBN: 978-1-136-30747-8
- EAN: 9781136307478
- Produktnummer: 13997885
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'103 KB
- Abbildungen: 15 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Jonathan Harwood is Professor if the History of Science and Technology at the University of Manchester.
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