Creating Abundance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521673877)

This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land and labor productivity. Biological innovations were essential for the movement of agriculture onto new lands with more extreme climates, for maintaining production in the face of evolving threats from pests, and for the creation of the modern livestock sector. These innovations established the foundation for the subsequent Green and Genetic Revolutions. The book challenges the misconceptions that, before the advent of hybrid corn, American farmers single-mindedly invested in laborsaving mechanical technologies and that biological technologies were static.

Author: Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
ISBN-10: 0521673879
ISBN-13: 9780521673877
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2008
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.10w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2009