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Food and agrarian orders in the world-economy
- Title
- Food and agrarian orders in the world-economy / edited by Philip McMichael.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- McMichael, Philip.
- Description
- xvi, 287 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contributions in economics and economic history, 0084-9235 ; no. 160
- Studies in the political economy of the world-system ; 15
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in economics and economic history ; no. 160.
- Studies in the political economy of the world-system ; 15.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-279) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Agrarian and Food Relations in the World-Economy / Philip McMichael -- 1. Food and Its Relationship to Concepts of Power / Sidney Mintz -- 2. Food Politics: New Dangers, New Possibilities / Harriet Friedmann -- 3. Durable Food Production and Consumption in the World-Economy / Susan J. Thompson and J. Tadlock Cowan -- 4. Historical Transformations in Agrarian Systems Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation: Toward an Alternative Model of Social Change / Ravi Arvind Palat -- 5. Fatal Conjuncture: The Decline and Fall of the Modern Agrarian Order during the Bretton Woods Era / Resat Kasaba and Faruk Tabak -- 6. Canadian Misfortunes and Filipino Fortunes: The Invention of Seaweed Mariculture and the Geographical Reorganization of Seaweed Production / Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli -- 7. Vines and Wines in the World-Economy / Roberto P. Korzeniewicz, Walter Goldfrank and Miguel E. Korzeniewicz.
- 8. The Regulation of the World Coffee Market: Tropical Commodities and the Limits of Globalization / John M. Talbot -- 9. On Global Pond: International Development and Commodity Chains in the Shrimp Industry / Mike Skladany and Craig K. Harris -- 10. Industrial Restructuring and Agrarian Change: The Greening of Singapore / Frances M. Ufkes -- 11. Gender and Cheap Labor in Agriculture / Jane L. Collins -- 12. Depeasantization and Agrarian Decline in the Caribbean / Ramon Grosfoguel -- 13. Free Trade Agreements: Their Impact on Agriculture and the Environment / Robert Schaeffer.
- ISBN
- 0313293996 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94017977
- OCLC
- 30399467
- ocm30399467
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries