Spanish Peaks Library District

"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...

Charts the development of agriculture from the Stone Age to the present.

Traces the history of agriculture over the course of ten thousand years, arguing that some of the world's worst ills, including disease, colonialism, overpopulation, malnutrition, and slavery, have been caused by agriculture.

An illustrated atlas of the United States including relief maps of every state, region, and territory with information about major cities, geography, industry, agriculture, history, and people.

"Expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence...