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Oceans of grain : how American wheat remade the world

"A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires. 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...

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Main Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Wheat trade > United States > History.
Wheat trade > History.
World history.
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505 |a The black paths, 10,000-800 BC -- The gates of Constantinople, 800 BC-AD 1758 -- Physiocratic expansion, 1760-1844 -- P. infestans and the birth of free trade, 1845-1852 -- Capitalism and slavery, 1853-1863 -- "Ceres Americana," 1861-1865 -- Boom, 1866 -- What is to be done? 1866-1871 -- The great grain crisis, 1873-1883 -- The grain power of Europe, 1815-1887 -- "Russia is the shame of Europe," 1882-1909 -- Orient express, army of action, 1910-1914 -- A world war over bread, 1914-1917 -- Grain as authority, 1916-1924. 
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