n Meal ((Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), pp. 111-116. For the broader context, see Harvey Levenstein, Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 101-118, 227-236. [21]Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, September 11, 1785, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al., 29 vols. thus far (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-), 8: 512-513 (quote, p. 513). Note that Jefferson’s phrase actually reads: “But ministers and merchants love nobody.” The phrase, however, is often rendered as in the text above. See, for example, A New Dictionary of Quotations, ed. H.L. Mencken (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942), p. 779. [22]See Bardhan, Land, Labor, and Rural Poverty: Essays in Development Economics (1984). For a broader discussion of such matters, see Debraj Ray, Development Economics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 529-589. [23]Peter A. Coclanis, “In Retrospect: Ransom and Sutch’s One Kind of Freedom,” Reviews in American History 28 (September 2000): 478-489. Also see Ray, Development Economics, pp. 529-589. [24]For an introduction to the world of modern agricultural finance, see, for example, Ralph W. Battles and Robert C. Thompson, Jr., Fundamentals of Agribusiness Finance (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000). On agricultural futures markets specifically, see Wayne D. Purcell and Stephen R. Koontz, Agricultural Futures and Options: Principles and Strategies, 2d ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1999). [25]See, for example, David J. Schaffner, William R. Schroder, and Mary D. Earle, Food Marketing: An International Perspective (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998). [26]Levitt, “Marketing Myopia,” Harvard Business Review 38 (July-August 1960): 45-56. The quote appears on page 56.
Shifting Cultivation: From the History of Agriculture to the History of Food Systems
Abstract The author makes the case for a new integrated approach to the study of agricultural history, which approach explicitly connects matters pertaining to agricultural production, broadly conceived, to those pertaining to distribution and consumption. He does so for two principal reasons: (1) because most scholarly approaches to agricultural history have focused so closely on production itself that they have not been able sufficiently to appreciate the relationship between the agricultural sector and other sectors of society; and (2) because, as agriculture becomes relatively less important in modern life, fewer and fewer students are interested in studying agricultural history, particularly when it is studied in isolation from other realms of economic and social life. Drawing heavily on the economic approach known as input-output analysis associated with the Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief, particularly as it was adapted to agriculture by John H. Davis and Ray A. Goldberg, the author lays out his “systems” approach to agricultural history, provides a series of examples of how the approach might be applied, and exhorts other agricultural historians to follow suit. According to the author, they would in so doing not only write better agricultural history, but also attract more students into the field.
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