Mazoyer, Marcel, 1933-

A history of world agriculture : from the neolithic age to the current crisis / Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart ; translated by James H. Membrez. - New York : Monthly Review Press, c2006. - 528 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 498-505) and index.

Evolution, agriculture, history
The Neolithic agricultural revolution
Systems of slash-and-burn agriculture in forest environments : deforestation and the formation of post-forest agrarian systems
The evolution of hydraulic agrarian systems in the Nile valley
The Inca agrarian system : a mountain agrarian system composed of complementary subsystems at different elevations
Agrarian systems based on fallowing and animal-drawn cultivation with the ard in the temperate region : the agricultural revolution in antiquity
Agrarian systems based on fallowing and animal-drawn cultivation with the plow in the cold temperate regions : the agricultural revolution of the middle ages in Northwestern Europe
Agrarian systems without fallowing in the temperate regions : the first agricultural revolution of modern times

1583671218 (pbk.) 9781583671214 (pbk.) 1583671226 (cloth) 9781583671221 (cloth)

2005000250


Agriculture--History.
Agricultura --Historia

HD 141 / M476h 2006

630/.9