UPC: 9783031155222 | World Agriculture Before and After 1492: Legacy of the Columbian Exchange (Hardcover)

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Chapter 1. Origins of world crops and livestock – Peopling of the world – Origins of agriculture – Transcontinental dispersal of Near East crops – Spread of Agriculture across the Mediterranean Basin – Indian Ocean dispersals – Dispersal of New World crops – Evolution of farming methods – World agriculture systems in 1492 Chapter 2. Evolution of European agriculture – Background – Food and diet – Mixed farming – Open field system and the manor – Muslim green revolution in Spain (Al Andalus) – Spread of the Mediterranean agrosystem Chapter 3. Agriculture in the Americas in the 16th century – Background – Rural economies in the Americas in 1492 – Food and agriculture of Aztecs – Food and agriculture of Incas – Food and agriculture of Maya – Food and agriculture of Taíno – Food and agriculture of Tupi-Guardi – Food and agriculture of North America Chapter 4. The Spanish conquest of the Americas – Background – Who were the conquerors? – The initial Spanish conquest of the Americas – Spread of the colonies – Organization of Spanish America – The Spanish colonial economy – The Great Dying – Effects of Columbian exchange on world population Chapter 5. Crop and livestock introductions into Spanish America – Background – Early crop and livestock introductions to New Spain – Early crop and livestock introductions to Peru – Plantation crops introduced to Spanish America Chapter 6. Homogenization of agriculture in Spanish America – Background – Colonial farms in the Caribbean – Colonial farms in Mexico and Peru – Old World livestock in the New World – Amerindian farms after the conquest Chapter 7. Portuguese colonization of Brazil – The Portuguese colonization strategy – Evolution of the Brazilian economy – Slavery in the Americas – Crop and Livestock introductions to Brazil – Spread of sugar plantations to Caribbean – Out from Africa