For over a century, California has been the world's most advanced agricultural zone, an agrarian juggernaut that not only out-produces every state in America, but also most countries. California's success, however, has come at significant costs. Never a family-farm region like the Midwest, California's landscape and Mediterranean climate have been manipulated and exploited to serve modern business interests. Home to gargantuan accomplishments such as the world's largest water storage and transfer network, California also relies on an army of Mexican farm laborers who live and work under dismal conditions. In The Conquest of Bread, acclaimed historian Richard A. Walker offers a wide-angle overview of the agro-industrial system of production in California from farm to table. He lays bare the long evolution of each link in the food chain, showing how a persistent emphasis on productivity and growth allowed California to outpace agriculture elsewhere in the United States. Full of thunder and surprises, The Conquest of Bread allows the reader to weigh the claims of both boosters and critics in the debate over the most extraordinary agricultural profusion in the modern world.
0 有用 makzhou 2024-06-01 05:07:41 美国
以加州农业为主题,讲了这个美国第一农业大州的核心是农业资本主义,商业耕作的核心是要吧食物、耕地、和劳动力都商品化,由此出现了商品链。这里不仅仅只关注农田耕作,同时还有育种、开耕土地、生物学、地理、牲畜、水处理。在生产环节之外,食物工业也很重要(如果不是更重要)──农产品的产值只有10%不到是来自生产环节,而有超过60%来自后期加工!着重看了科技的章节。还学到一个新词:nurseryman 育种员(... 以加州农业为主题,讲了这个美国第一农业大州的核心是农业资本主义,商业耕作的核心是要吧食物、耕地、和劳动力都商品化,由此出现了商品链。这里不仅仅只关注农田耕作,同时还有育种、开耕土地、生物学、地理、牲畜、水处理。在生产环节之外,食物工业也很重要(如果不是更重要)──农产品的产值只有10%不到是来自生产环节,而有超过60%来自后期加工!着重看了科技的章节。还学到一个新词:nurseryman 育种员(原来种子商人是真的存在的)。 (展开)