Author : Annie Walter
Publisher : IRD Editions
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781863204705
Gardens of Oceania summarises available knowledge about numerous food plants with commercial potential, in order to assure the development of an agriculture that can produce a sufficient amount to cope with a formidable population growth while at the same time preserving the Vanuatu environment.
Author : Barbara A. West
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2010-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1438119135
Presents an alphabetical listing of information on the peoples of Asia and Oceania including origins, prehistory, history, culture, languages, and relationships to other cultures.
Author : Alfred J. Andrea Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 8025 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1851099301
An unprecedented undertaking by academics reflecting an extraordinary vision of world history, this landmark multivolume encyclopedia focuses on specific themes of human development across cultures era by era, providing the most in-depth, expansive presentation available of the development of humanity from a global perspective. Well-known and widely respected historians worked together to create and guide the project in order to offer the most up-to-date visions available. A monumental undertaking. A stunning academic achievement. ABC-CLIO's World History Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive work to take a large-scale thematic look at the human species worldwide. Comprised of 21 volumes covering 9 eras, an introductory volume, and an index, it charts the extraordinary journey of humankind, revealing crucial connections among civilizations in different regions through the ages. Within each era, the encyclopedia highlights pivotal interactions and exchanges among cultures within eight broad thematic categories: population and environment, society and culture, migration and travel, politics and statecraft, economics and trade, conflict and cooperation, thought and religion, science and technology. Aligned to national history standards and packed with images, primary resources, current citations, and extensive teaching and learning support, the World History Encyclopedia gives students, educators, researchers, and interested general readers a means of navigating the broad sweep of history unlike any ever published.
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : Craig Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1000228029
The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, including big history’s relationship to science, social science, the humanities, and the future, as well as teaching big history and ‘little big histories’. Considering an ever-expanding range of theoretical, pedagogical and research topics, the book addresses such questions as what is the relationship between big history and scientific research, how are big historians working with philosophers and religious thinkers to help construct ‘meaning’, how are leading theoreticians making sense of big history and its relationship to other creation narratives and paradigms, what is ‘little big history’, and how does big history impact on thinking about the future? The book highlights the place of big history in historiographical traditions and the ways in which it can be used in education and public discourse across disciplines and at all levels. A timely collection with contributions from leading proponents in the field, it is the ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and concepts behind big history.
Author : Gad Loebenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2009-03-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402094752
In the last four decades of the twentieth century the use of sweetpotato was diversified beyond their classification as subsistence, food security, and famine-relief crop. In developing countries they serve both as human food and for feeding livestock. In Western countries they appeal to health conscious consumers because of their nutritional aspects. The sweetpotato is very high in nutritive value, and merits wider use on this account alone. The book has 2 parts. A general one giving up-to-date information on the history, botany, cultivars, genetic engineering, propagation, diseases and pests, nutritional data and marketing; and a second part presenting data on sweetpotato growing practices in different areas of the world. The information should be useful to researchers, practitioners and crop administrators in different countries.
Author : Kenneth F. Kiple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Food
ISBN : 9780521402149
A two-volume set which traces the history of food and nutrition from the beginning of human life on earth through the present.
Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 111897753X
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Author : International Potato Center
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Julie Crea Dunbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN :
Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to a Globalized World takes readers on a fascinating and unique journey through time from many of the earliest world civilizations right into the 21st century. From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted-and still interact-with the environment around them, as well as the environment's role in not only shaping the society's world view but enabling the building of socially stratified and successful civilizations. Not your run-of-the-mill world history tome, this book examines world history through the closely related discipline of geography. The civilizations and events represented in the book, while not exhaustive, were selected to highlight geographic themes and areas of study. Upon completing the book, readers should have a firm understanding of the expansive, cross-curricular study of geography-from the study of world cultures and history to politics to the environment and Earth's physical processes. In addition, they will have a new understanding of the relevance of geography to not only human history but contemporary events, as well as their day-to-day lives. By presenting this history from a slightly different, geographic point of view, Exploring World History through Geography will inspire fresh curiosity in the world, both past and present.
