Book Description
Food Power brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War.
Author : Bryan L. McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190600683
Food Power brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War.
Author : Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Committee on Postwar Agricultural Policy
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Carin Martiin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1315465922
In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly international. The war applied a profound shock to this system. In some countries farms became battlefields, causing the extensive destruction of buildings, crops and livestock. In others, farmers had to respond to calls from the state for increased production to cope with the effects of wartime disruption of international trade. By the end of the war food was rationed when it was obtainable at all. Only fifteen years later the erstwhile enemies were planning ways of bringing about a single agricultural market across much of continental western Europe, as farmers mechanised, motorized, shed labour, invested capital, and adopted new technologies to increase output. This volume brings together scholars working on this period of dramatic technical, commercial and political change in agriculture, from the end of the Second World War to the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1960s. Their work is structured around four themes: the changes in the international political order within which agriculture operated; the emergence of a range of different market regulation schemes that preceded the CAP; changes in technology and the extent to which they were promoted by state policy; and the impact of these political and technical changes on rural societies in western Europe.
Author : Venus Bivar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469641194
France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomic refinement and as a model of artisanal agriculture and husbandry. But French farming is not at all what it seems. Countering the standard stories of gastronomy, tourism, and leisure associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production. With a focus on both the rise of big agriculture and the organic movement, Bivar examines the tumult of postwar rural France, a place fiercely engaged with crucial national and global developments. Delving into the intersecting narratives of economic modernization, the birth of organic farming, the development of a strong agricultural protest movement, and the rise of environmentalism, Bivar reveals a movement as preoccupied with maintaining the purity of the French race as of French food. What emerges is a story of how French farming conquered the world, bringing with it a set of ideas about place and purity with a darker origin story than we might have guessed.
Author : David Orden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226632643
Students of public policy and practitioners within the farm program arena will find theis book an essential source of insight, information, and original cross-disciplinary argument."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Seymour Edwin Harris
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Economic policy
ISBN :
Author : David Marr
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501719394
This anthology concentrates on domestic questions, economic policies, and socialist development and ideology. The essays' subjects include such varied topics as education, economics, the military, leadership, and economic assistance and humanitarian aid.
Author : Hanno Jentzsch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1487508549
Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.
Author : Thomas Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108419763
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--
Author : Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. Committee on Postwar Agricultural Policy
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :