agriculture + pastoralism

Book Reviews

• Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi: Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java
  - krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
• J. Peter Brosius: After Duwagan
  Deforestation, Succession and Adaption in Upland Luzon, Philippines
• Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel*
  The Fates of Human Societies
• Joan M. Frayn: Sheep-Rearing and the Wool Trade
  in Italy during the Roman Period
• Bruce L. Gardner: American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
  How it Flourished and What it Cost
• Clifford Geertz: Agricultural Involution
  The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
• Patrick Vinton Kirch: The Wet and the Dry*
  Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polynesia
• Dan Koeppel: Banana
  The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
• James C. McCann: Maize and Grace
  Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000
• Elinor G.K. Melville: A Plague of Sheep
  Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico
• Carla Rahn Philips, William D. Philips Jr: Spain's Golden Fleece
  Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
• David Rindos: The Origins of Agriculture
  An Evolutionary Perspective
• Neil Roberts: The Holocene
  An Environmental History
• M.L. Ryder: Sheep and Man
  - a comprehensive study of sheep in human history
• Karim Sadr: The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
  - a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
• James C. Scott: Weapons of the Weak**
  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

See also: archaeology | botany | ecology | food