Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Peter Coclanis
yhteensä 12 hakutulosta
Plantation Kingdom
How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, …
The Shadow of a Dream
This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low …
A Way Forward
Immense changes have come about in both North Carolina and the South more broadly in the last half century. Both the state and the region as a whole experienced rapid economic …
Water and Power
This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, …
Plantation Kingdom
In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that …
Seed from Madagascar
Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves--the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But …
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of …
Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course …
Ideas, Ideologies and Social Movements
This volume uncovers the role of ideas and ideologies in some of the most important social movements in US history. The book examines attempts to bring about or to thwart social or …
Rice
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 …