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Oceans of Grain
- How American Wheat Remade the World
Engelsk Hardback
Oceans of Grain
- How American Wheat Remade the World
Engelsk Hardback

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An "incredibly timely" global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world's largest empires (Financial Times).
 
To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain—along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power.
 
Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed much of Europe through the booming port of Odessa, on the Black Sea in Ukraine. But following the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign grain spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and the European scramble for empire. It was a crucial factor in the outbreak of the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
 
A powerful new interpretation, Oceans of Grain shows that amid the great powers’ rivalries, there was no greater power than control of grain.
 
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781541646469
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1541646460
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
22 feb 2022
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
243mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Basic Books
Oplagsdato:
22 feb 2022
Forfatter(e):
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