Rice : global networks and new histories / edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, Dagmar Schäfer.

Title	Rice : global networks and new histories / edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, Dagmar Schäfer.
Publication Date:	2015
Publication Place	New York, NY, USA - Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subject	Rice -- History.
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	421
Physical Dimensions	24 cm
Library:	The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID	3100001~!118922~!4896
Library Location	HS-SS Stacks
Date	2015
Notes	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-398) and index.. 118922. xxi, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
İçindekiler	Introduction. Global networks and new histories of rice / Francesca Bray -- Part I. Purity and promiscuity -- 1. Global visions vs. local complexity: experts wrestle with the problem of development / Jonathan Harwood -- 2. Rice, sugar, and livestock in Java, 1820-1940: Geertz's 'Agricultural involutions' 50 years on / Peter Boomgaard and Pieter M. Kroonenberg -- 3. A desire to eat well: rice and the market in eighteenth-century China / Sui-Wai Cheung -- 4. Rice and maritime modernity: the modern Chinese state and the South China Sea rice trade / Seung-Joon Lee -- 5. Promiscuous transmission and encapsulated knowledge: a material-semiotic approach to modern rice in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs -- 6. Red and white rice in the vicinity of Sierra Leone: linked histories of slavery, emancipation, and seed selection / Bruce L. Mouser, Edwin Nuijten, Florent Okry, and Paul Richards -- Part II. Environmental matters -- 7. Rice and rice farmers in the Upper Guinea Coast and environmental history / Edda L. Fields-Black -- 8. Reserving water: environmental and technological relationships with colonial South Carolina inland rice plantations / Hayden R. Smith -- 9. Asian rice in Africa: plant genetics and crop history / Erik Gilbert -- 10. When Jola granaries were full / Olga F. Linares -- 11. Of health and harvests: seasonal mortality and commercial rice cultivation in the Punjab and Bengal regions of South Asia / Lauren Minsky -- Part III. Power and control -- 12. The cultural meaning of work: the "black rice debate" reconsidered / Walter Hawthorne -- 13. White rice: the Midwestern origins of the modern rice industry in the United States / Peter A. Coclanis -- 14. Rice and the path of economic development in Japan / Penelope Francks -- 15. Commodities and anti-commodities: rice on Sumatra, 1915-1925 / Harro Maat.
ISBN	9781107044395, 1107044391, 9781107622371, 1107622379

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Rice : global networks and new histories / edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, Dagmar Schäfer.

Publication Date 2015

Publication Place New York, NY, USA - Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Subject Rice -- History.

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 421

Physical Dimensions 24 cm

Library The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Record ID 3100001~!118922~!4896

Library Location HS-SS Stacks

Date 2015

Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-398) and index.. 118922. xxi, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

İçindekiler Introduction. Global networks and new histories of rice / Francesca Bray -- Part I. Purity and promiscuity -- 1. Global visions vs. local complexity: experts wrestle with the problem of development / Jonathan Harwood -- 2. Rice, sugar, and livestock in Java, 1820-1940: Geertz's 'Agricultural involutions' 50 years on / Peter Boomgaard and Pieter M. Kroonenberg -- 3. A desire to eat well: rice and the market in eighteenth-century China / Sui-Wai Cheung -- 4. Rice and maritime modernity: the modern Chinese state and the South China Sea rice trade / Seung-Joon Lee -- 5. Promiscuous transmission and encapsulated knowledge: a material-semiotic approach to modern rice in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs -- 6. Red and white rice in the vicinity of Sierra Leone: linked histories of slavery, emancipation, and seed selection / Bruce L. Mouser, Edwin Nuijten, Florent Okry, and Paul Richards -- Part II. Environmental matters -- 7. Rice and rice farmers in the Upper Guinea Coast and environmental history / Edda L. Fields-Black -- 8. Reserving water: environmental and technological relationships with colonial South Carolina inland rice plantations / Hayden R. Smith -- 9. Asian rice in Africa: plant genetics and crop history / Erik Gilbert -- 10. When Jola granaries were full / Olga F. Linares -- 11. Of health and harvests: seasonal mortality and commercial rice cultivation in the Punjab and Bengal regions of South Asia / Lauren Minsky -- Part III. Power and control -- 12. The cultural meaning of work: the "black rice debate" reconsidered / Walter Hawthorne -- 13. White rice: the Midwestern origins of the modern rice industry in the United States / Peter A. Coclanis -- 14. Rice and the path of economic development in Japan / Penelope Francks -- 15. Commodities and anti-commodities: rice on Sumatra, 1915-1925 / Harro Maat.

ISBN 9781107044395, 1107044391, 9781107622371, 1107622379