In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects …
Read More >By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption It was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along …
Read More >by Gregory L. Simon, author of Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Another day, another menacing wildfire. This appears to be the …
Read More >The following is excerpted from the introduction to a new special issue published by Sociology of Development on “Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century” (Vol. 2, No. 2). The introduction is written by the issue’s guest-editor, …
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