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  • Moving Crops and the Scales of History

    by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a cropHuman efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Technology in World Civilization, revised and expanded edition

    A Thousand-Year History

    by Arnold Pacey, Francesca Bray ...
    The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology.This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rice

    Global Networks and New Histories

    Edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, Dagmar Schäfer ...
    Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in the rise of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Moving Crops and the Scales of History

    by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”—the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a cropHuman efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This book is a bold but ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

    Great Transformations Reconsidered

    by Francesca Bray ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which ... Read more

    $73.99 USD