Bread, beer and the seeds of change : agriculture's impact on world history /

• Main Authors: Sinclair, Thomas R., 1944- (Author), Sinclair, Carol Janas, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Agriculture > History.; Food > History.; Crop science > History.; Food Processing (General); History and Biography.; Agricultural Economics.; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Crop Produce.; Agricultural development.; Baking.; Beers.; Bread.; Brewing.; Crop production.; Environmental factors.; Fermentation.; Food grains.; Food production.; Grain crops.; History.; Processing.; Technical progress.; Technology.
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This book examines grain production and processing in various early agricultural societies as well as the technological advances in Western societies. The book is organized into three parts. The first part (chapters 2-6) examines background information and discusses the basics of cropping and food p...

Table of Contents:

• Why agriculture?
• What crops to grow?
• Basics of beer and bread
• Human nutrition and diet
• Cropping 101 : water, nitrogen, weed control
• Sumerians (~3500 to 2334 BCE)
• Egyptians (~3000 to 1070 BCE)
• Chinese (221 BCE to 220 CE)
• Bantu of Africa (~400 BCE to 300 CE)
• Maya (~150 BCE to 910 CE)
• Athenians (550 to 338 BCE)/ Romans (509 BCE to 410 CE)
• Feudal Europeans (800 to 1347)
• British (1700 to 1850)
• Development of science and technology (1850 to 1950)
• Americans (1950 to present)
• Epilogue: future of grain fermentation.