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Author: R. Douglas Hurt ,
Alan I Marcus
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 914.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9780817320515
ISBN 10: 0817320512
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 March 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The book's insights have much to teach readers amidst ongoing efforts to enhance agricultural production through genetic modification. This volume will be of most interest to those focusing on environmental history and agriculture. Recommended. --CHOICE This is an important book because it takes on a subject laden with emotion, ideology, myth, and distortion for more than half a century. It is crisply written, fast-paced and based upon thorough, carefully documented research and brings a fresh, balanced, much-needed, and much welcomed historical approach to the subject. --David Vaught, author of Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920 The Green Revolution in the Global South is unusual is the author's even-handed approach to the Green Revolution. He does not take sides but instead illuminates the respective positions of the Green Revolution's advocates and critics. Hurt writes clearly and offers countless apt examples throughout. --Howard P. Segal, coauthor of Technology in America: A Brief History
"""The Green Revolution in the Global South is unusual is the author's even-handed approach to the Green Revolution. He does not take sides but instead illuminates the respective positions of the Green Revolution's advocates and critics. Hurt writes clearly and offers countless apt examples throughout."" --Howard P. Segal, coauthor of Technology in America: A Brief History ""The book's insights have much to teach readers amidst ongoing efforts to enhance agricultural production through genetic modification. This volume will be of most interest to those focusing on environmental history and agriculture. Recommended."" --CHOICE ""This is an important book because it takes on a subject laden with emotion, ideology, myth, and distortion for more than half a century. It is crisply written, fast-paced and based upon thorough, carefully documented research and brings a fresh, balanced, much-needed, and much welcomed historical approach to the subject."" --David Vaught, author of Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920"
Author Information
R. Douglas Hurt is professor of history at Purdue University. He is author of Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South; The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century; and The Great Plains during World War II. He is a former editor of Agricultural History, a former president of the Agricultural History Society, a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska.
