Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change

Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change:
Agriculture's Imprint on World History

By T R Sinclair, Visiting Professor, University of Florida, USA, C J Sinclair, Independent Researcher, North Carolina, USA

June 2010
Paperback
208 Pages
ISBN: 9781845937041

Main Description

Readership

Students of agriculture, food technology, history and anthropology.

Main Contents

Part I. Background
Chapter 1. Why Agriculture?
Chapter 2. What Crops to Grow?
Chapter 3. Beer and Bread
Chapter 4. Human Nutrition and Health
Chapter 5. Cropping Requirements
Part II. Early Agricultural Societies
Chapter 6. Sumerian (~3500 to 2334 BCE)
Chapter 7. Egyptian (~3000 to 1070 BCE)
Chapter 8. Chinese (206 BCE to 220 CE)
Chapter 9. Bantu of Africa (~500 BCE to 300 CE)
Chapter 10. Maya (~150 BCE to 910 CE)
Part III. Technology Advances in Western Societies
Chapter 11. Athenians (550 to 334 BCE) / Romans (509 BCE to 410 CE)
Chapter 12. Feudal Europeans (800 to 1347)
Chapter 13. British (1700 to 1850)
Chapter 14. Development of Science and Technology (1850 to 1950)
Chapter 15. Americans (1950 to present)
Epilogue: Future of Grain Fermentation