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For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book…
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Helen Anne Curry
Plant breeders have long sought technologies to extend human control over nature. Early in the twentieth century, this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines, chromosome-altering…
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In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature…
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Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.
Many people worry that we’re losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century…
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Offers a comprehensive thematic introduction to a wide range of medieval writings about the outlaw-hero from a series of different historical perspectives.
From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have sparked wonder and delight. This lively introduction to the history of natural history contextualises current…
