The Transformation of Australia's Farming Communities
On the land and in country towns the battle to survive goes on forever. The world needs foodstuffs and textiles but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams combine, communities keep reinventing themselves.
The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
In Shredding Paper, Michael G. Hillard examines how Maine, once the nation's leader in paper production, saw its powerful industry decline. From the early twentieth century to the 1960s, Maine's paper mills shaped the state's economy and labor relations, but by the late twentieth century, shifting economic forces and foreign competition led to ......
Introduction to Agricultural Economics presents students with a systematic introduction to essential economic concepts and issues within agriculture, reflecting on how microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shape production, marketing, and consumption of food and fiber products. The scope of the book extends beyond traditional farm management to ......
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana Previously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is now on the brink of becoming the global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform ......
Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond
Exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women's lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana Previously ranked among the hemisphere's poorest countries, Guyana is now on the brink of becoming the global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform ......
In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia, Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in Indonesia back to the preferences of big local business interests. Commodity booms often prompt more nationalist policy styles in resource-rich countries. Usually, this nationalist push weakens once a boom is over. But in Indonesia, a major global ......
How Hawai?i became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry's power. Hawai?i is a primary site for development of herbicide-resistant corn seed and, until recently, was host to more experimental field trials of genetically engineered crops than anywhere else in the world. It is also ......
This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production-including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding-and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to ......
