J. C. Willis
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 2011
9781107600201
Agriculture in the Tropics
An Elementary Treatise
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Paperback, 288 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
2011
ISBN13: 9781107600201
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Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. The book is structured around descriptions of these resources and their potential for future development, numerous illustrative figures are also included. Because the text is written from a broadly colonial perspective, such development is largely seen in terms of an engagement between the modernising influence of dominant states and the 'primitive' environments over which they hold sway. This volume will be illuminating for anyone with an interest in agriculture, botany, or the colonial mindset.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781107600201
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:288
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
Part I. The Preliminaries to Agriculture: 1. Land and soil; 2. Climate; 3. Population and labour; 4. Transport and capital; 5. Drainage and irrigation; 6. Tools, tillage, manuring, chopping, etc.; 7. Plant life in the tropics. Acclimatisation; 8. Agriculture in the tropics in primitive times, and its gradual change; Part II. The Principal Cultivations of the Tropics: 9. Rice and other cereals and food plants; 10. Sugar; 11. Teas; 12. Coffee, cacao or chocolate, kola, etc.; 13. Coconuts and other palms; 14. Spices; 15. Fruits and vegetables; 16. Tobacco, opium, hemp; 17. Cinchona and other drugs; 18. Fibre-yielding plants; 19. Dye stuffs and tanning substances; 20. Oil-yielding plants; 21. Indiarubber, guttapercha, and camphor; 22. Mixed garden cultivation by tropical natives; 23. The diseases of plants in the tropics, and their treatment; 24. Stock; Part III. Agriculture in the Tropics (General): 25. Village or peasant agriculture; 26. The relations of the peasant to the land and crops, cultural systems, etc.; 27. The financing of village agriculture, and the provision of local markets; 28. The crops and methods of peasant agriculture, and their possibilities of improvement; 29. Education of the peasant, and its bearing upon agricultural progress; 30. Capitalist or estate agriculture; 31. The agricultural needs of the planting enterprise. Summary of Part III; Part IV. Agricultural Organisation and Policy: 32. Organisation of agriculture; 33. Agricultural policy; 34. Departments of agriculture.