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A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
Randal S. Beeman
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Hardcover. The organic food industry is a multi-billion dollar business driven by ever growing consumer demand for safe food and a greater public awareness of ecological issues. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in 20th century America. Series: Development of Western Resources S. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; RNC; RNF; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twentieth-century America, showing how ecological thought has challenged and changed agricultural theory, practice, and policy from the 1930s to the present. It introduces us to the people and institutions who ... Read more
Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dollar business driven by ever-growing consumer demand for safe food and greater public awareness of ecological issues. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era. This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twentieth-century America, showing how ecological thought has challenged and changed agricultural theory, practice, and policy from the 1930s to the present. It introduces us to the people and institutions who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Development of Western Resources S.
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700610662
SKU
V9780700610662
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About Randal S. Beeman
Randal S. Beeman is professor of history at Bakersfield College. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. James A. Pritchard teaches natural resoun conservation and environmental literature at Iowa State University and is the author Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature.
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