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Corn And Capitalism
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Author : Arturo Warman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-12-04
Corn And Capitalism written by Arturo Warman and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-04 with History categories.
Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy. The book, first published in Mexico in 1988, combines approaches from anthropology, social history, and political economy to tell the story of corn, a "botanical bastard" of unclear origins that cannot reseed itself and is instead dependent on agriculture for propagation. Beginning in the Americas, Warman depicts corn as colonizer. Disparaged by the conquistadors, this Native American staple was embraced by the destitute of the Old World. In time, corn spread across the globe as a prodigious food source for both humans and livestock. Warman also reveals corn's role in nourishing the African slave trade. Through the history of one plant with enormous economic importance, Warman investigates large-scale social and economic processes, looking at the role of foodstuffs in the competition between nations and the perpetuation of inequalities between rich and poor states in the world market. Praising corn's almost unlimited potential for future use as an intensified source of starch, sugar, and alcohol, Warman also comments on some of the problems he foresees for large-scale, technology-dependent monocrop agriculture.
Corn And Capitalism
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Author : Arturo Warman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-03-01
Corn And Capitalism written by Arturo Warman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-01 with categories.
Corn, a plant pivotal to the lives of countless people the world over, has alternately suffered, thrived under, and resisted the pressures of modernization, development, and the world marketplace. Corn's place in the world today is the result of a number of complex historical interactions. This study covers such topics as: American Plants, World Treasures; Botanical Economy of a Marvelous Plant; Corn in China; Corn and Slavery in Africa; Corn and Colonialism; Corn in Europe; Corn and Society before the Era of Bourgeois Revolution; Corn in the U.S.: Blessing and Bane; The Road to Food Power; The Syndrome of Inequality: The World Market; Inventing the Future; Brief Reflections on Utopia and the New Millennium. Translated from the Spanish ed.
English Grain Exports And The Structure Of Agrarian Capitalism 1700 1760
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Author : David Ormrod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
English Grain Exports And The Structure Of Agrarian Capitalism 1700 1760 written by David Ormrod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
The Political Economy Of The Family Farm
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Author : Sue Headlee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1991-11-30
The Political Economy Of The Family Farm written by Sue Headlee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-11-30 with Political Science categories.
Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.
Enclosure Capitalist Agriculture And The Growth In Corn Yields In Early Modern England
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Author : Robert C. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of British Columbia
Release Date : 1986
Enclosure Capitalist Agriculture And The Growth In Corn Yields In Early Modern England written by Robert C. Allen and has been published by Department of Economics, University of British Columbia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Agricultural productivity categories.
Corn Crusade
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Author : Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Corn Crusade written by Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with History categories.
Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first history of Nikita Khrushchev's venture to cover the Soviet Union in corn, a crop common globally but hitherto rare in his country. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises inherited from Joseph Stalin. Using policies and propaganda to pressure farms to expand corn plantings tenfold, Khrushchev expected the resulting bounty to feed not people, but the livestock necessary to produce the meat and dairy products required to make good on his frequent pledges that the Soviet Union was soon to "catch up to and surpass America." This promised to enrich citizens' hitherto monotonous diets and score a victory in the Cold War, which was partly recast as a "peaceful competition" between communism and capitalism. Khrushchev's former comrades derided corn as one of his "harebrained schemes" when ousting him in October 1964. Echoing them, scholars have ridiculed it as an "irrational obsession," blaming the failure on climatic conditions. Corn Crusade brings a more complex and revealing history to light. Borrowing technologies from the United States, Khrushchev expected farms in the Soviet Union to increase productivity because he believed that innovations developed under capitalism promised greater returns under socialism. These technologies generated results in many economic, social, and climatic contexts after World War II but fell short in the Soviet Union. Attempting to make agriculture more productive and ameliorate exploitative labor practices established in the 1930s, Khrushchev achieved only partial reform of rural economic life. Enjoying authority over formal policy, Khrushchev stood atop an undisciplined hierarchy of bureaucracies, local authorities, and farmworkers. Weighing competing incentives, they flouted his authority by doing enough to avoid penalties, but too little to produce even modest harvests of corn, let alone the bumper crops the leader envisioned.
The Failure Of Agrarian Capitalism
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Author : Niek Koning
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-04
The Failure Of Agrarian Capitalism written by Niek Koning and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Agriculture is a highly sensitive industry. Throughout their history, national governments have intervened in and protected their agricultural sectors. The problems of competition in agriculture have been continually illustrated by disagreement over the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, more recently, by attempts to reform farming policy in the last round of the GATT negotiations. The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism presents a comparative analysis of in agarian policies in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA from 1846-1919.
The Microeconomics Of Capitalism
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Author : John Broome
language : en
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Academic Press
Release Date : 1983
The Microeconomics Of Capitalism written by John Broome and has been published by London ; Toronto : Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Business & Economics categories.
Capital
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Author : Karl Marx
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Capital written by Karl Marx and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Capital categories.
The Progress Of Capitalism In England
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Author : William Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-21
The Progress Of Capitalism In England written by William Cunningham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-21 with Business & Economics categories.
Originally published in 1916, this book provides a concise study regarding the development of capitalism in Britain and the nature of economic history.