agricultural Revolution
description: transition from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture
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The Insatiable Machine
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
of rents across the entire period of agricultural transformation.57 As the economic historian Robert Allen puts it, landlords were “the only gainers of the agricultural revolution: real rents increased sevenfold from the middle of the fifteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth.”58 Figure 4. Rent in the South Midlands
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
by Carissa Véliz · 21 Apr 2026 · 503pp · 129,255 words
colder phases bringing periods of demographic decline, conflict, and replacement of rulers. Cooler weather in England in the early modern period might’ve triggered an agricultural revolution, leading to new technologies, bringing about an energy transition toward fossil fuels, giving rise to European empires. The role of climate becomes all the more
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott · 8 Feb 1999 · 607pp · 185,487 words
maximizing the crop return per unit of labor, whereas if land was scarce, the return per acre would be the focus. 3. Paul Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa (London: Unwin Hyman, 1985), p. 160; in this chapter I rely heavily on this brilliant book. Richards is
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1947), see Nancy L. Johnson and Vernon W. Ruttan, "Why Are Farms So Small?" World Development 22, no. 5 (1994): 691-706. 34. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, pp. 63-1 16. In this discussion I shall use the terms "polycropping" and "mixed cropping" interchangeably. Intercropping is a form of polycropping in which
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foods needed for subsistence rather than paying for them in the market. The point, however, is the plan behind the visual disorder. 38. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 63. 39. Ibid., p. 70. 40. Most traditional cropping systems, whether polyculture or crop rotation, combine a grain and a legume in this fashion
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. 41. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, pp. 66-70. 42. H. C. Sampson and E. M. Crowther, "Crop Production and Soil Fertility Problems," West Africa Commission, 1938-1939: Technical Reports, part
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. 55. And that, of course, was part of the reason why such populations often remained in, or fled to, non-state spaces. 56. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 50. Richards continues: "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, W. G. A. OrmsbyGore, summed up the attitude of the day when
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Knowledge." paper presented at a congress entitled "Agrarian Questions: The Politics of Farming Anno 1995," May 22-24, 1995, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 59. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 43. In this context Richards is accepting the premise that the only test is market efficiency, providing that it is sustainable. 60. Ibid., p
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Development: Putting the Last First (London: Longman, 1983), quoted in Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 40. There is a case to be made for Howard's claim that "agricultural revolutions" are always acts of autonomous farmers rather than states. From the agricultural revolution in Britain that laid the groundwork for industrialization to the broad adoption of
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. F. Wilson, "Moving Research to Farmers' Fields," International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Research Briefs, 4:4, 1, 7-8, quoted in Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 143. 80. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 143. 81. Sauer, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals, pp. 62-83. 82. In addition to the difficulties in finding the "active" cause
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marketplace, each variety would still have unique labor requirements, growing characteristics, and resistances that would make an important difference to the growers. 92. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, p. 124. 93. Wendell Berry, "Whose Head Is the Farmer Using? Whose Head Is Using the Farmer?" in Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and Bruce Coleman
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ancestors felt protected by wearing garlands of garlic around their necks. 109. Howard, An Agricultural Testament, p. 221. 1 10. Ibid., p. 160. Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolution, concurs, writing, "No student should expect to be able to advise farmers on changes in their farming practices until he or she has a firm
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Geographic 137, no. 2 (February 1970): 184-85. Used by permission of Davis Meltzer/National Geographic Image Collection. Figure 35. Photograph from Paul Richards, Indigenous Agricultural Revolutions: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa (London: Unwin Hyman, 1985), plate 3. Courtesy of Paul Richards. Figures 36-37. Drawings from Edgar Anderson, Plants
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel · 17 Jan 2017 · 775pp · 208,604 words
: 367–389. Barfield, Thomas J. 1989. The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Barker, Graeme. 2006. The agricultural revolution in prehistory: why did foragers become farmers? Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barker, John W. 2004. “Late Byzantine Thessalonike: a second city’s challenges and responses
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
by Calestous Juma · 27 May 2017
lessons from China’s agricultural transformation that can inspire Africa’s efforts to turn around decades of low agricultural investment and misguided policies. An African agricultural revolution is within reach, provided the continent can focus on supporting small-scale farmers to help meet national and regional demand for food, rather than relying
Innovation and Its Enemies
by Calestous Juma · 20 Mar 2017
the onset of the Civil War and the ensuing political and social upheaval, farming in America underwent significant changes. The Civil War prompted the first agricultural revolution, transitioning from hand labor to horse labor.6 With the surging demand for agricultural products and shortage of labor due to the draft, farmers were
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of Economic History 22, no. 4. (1962): 574. 6. Rasmussen, “Impact of Technological Change,” 578; Wayne D. Rasmussen and Paul S. Stone, “Toward a Third Agricultural Revolution,” Proceedings from the Academy of Political Science 34, no. 3 (1982): 174–185. 7. Robert C. Williams, Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin’ Johnny: A History of
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farm sizes, 121 chaos in, 126 chemicals, opposition to use of, 24 in China, reduced pesticide exposure, 246 farmers’ organizations, 143 farm subsidies, 229 first agricultural revolution, 123 impact of Civil War on, 123–124 institutionalization of mechanization of, 137–140 lack of government intervention in, 98 researchers, tensions with, 134–135
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024
.pdf. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 39 Lebergott, “Labor Force and Employment, 1800–1960,” 119. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 40 F. M. L. Thompson, “The Second Agricultural Revolution, 1815–1880,” Economic History Review 21, no. 1 (April 1968): 62–77, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2592204; Norman E. Borlaug, “Contributions of Conventional Plant
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/219/4585/689.full.pdf. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 41 To go deeper on how industrialization transformed agriculture, see “Causes of the Industrial Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution,” ClickView, YouTube video, August 10, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKIts2_yJ0; John Green, “Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9K8ZJqAwE; “Cyrus McCormick,” PBS, accessed April 20, 2023, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/mccormick_hi.html; Mark Overton, Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 42 Lebergott, “Labor Force and
This Sceptred Isle
by Christopher Lee · 19 Jan 2012 · 796pp · 242,660 words
going on in settled farming, it is sometimes called the Agricultural Age and is seen as a ‘culturally more dramatic threshold than our more recent Agricultural Revolution’.3 Yet, if we look at the New Stone Age or Agricultural Age in the British Isles, we would probably date it c.5,500
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who would follow the grazing) is in evidence in East Anglia as early as 6,300 years ago. It took hundreds of years for the Agricultural Revolution to spread throughout the islands from the south, the east and the west as far north as the Orkneys.4 What is not so clear
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by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson · 20 Mar 2012 · 547pp · 172,226 words
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An Edible History of Humanity
by Tom Standage · 30 Jun 2009 · 282pp · 82,107 words
and crops now in the ground demonstrate that throughout much of the developing world—and particularly in Asia—we are on the verge of an agricultural revolution,” he said. “It is not a violent red revolution like that of the Soviets, nor is it a white revolution like that of the Shah
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