《世界文明中的作物迁徙》内容简介
本书通过详细解剖植物变成作物后，文化和意义层面的转变，探究农业对人类的影响。
这本书主要反对了史学界被欧洲中心主义统治的现象，采取了多文明比较的视野，对中国的粟种植，轮种，农作物多样化交口称赞。本书也是一本技术史类的图书，作者对植物的物性进行了历史性剖析。
著名海外汉学家、李约瑟的学生白馥兰，及其伙伴芭芭拉·哈恩、约翰·博斯科·卢杜萨米、蒂亚戈·萨拉瓦共同进行的农业人类学研究。对比不同文明视野下的农业智慧，发掘鲜为人知的农业文明：中东的郁金香品种研发系统领先世界几百年；阿拉伯的椰枣绿洲文明包罗万象、兼收并蓄；令亚洲古文明勃兴的灌溉工程、改变西方人饮食习惯的可可豆、创造绿洲文明的椰枣树、日本小农的手作酱油、鼓励了爱尔兰民族主义运动的土豆……农业改变世界的同时，世界也重塑着农业
世界历史协会本特利图书奖、技术史学会埃德尔斯坦奖获奖图书，现代版《齐民要术》。贯通千年，农业技术与文明的全球互动，农作物身上承载的农业智慧如何通过全球贸易交换传播。被忽视的农业智慧如何解决地球资源枯竭、粮食短缺的问题
著名海外汉学家、李约瑟的学生白馥兰的农业人类学研究，对比不同文明视野下的农业智慧，发掘鲜为人知的农业文明，中东的郁金香品种研发系统；阿拉伯的椰枣绿洲文明包罗万象、兼收并蓄。令亚洲古文明勃兴的灌溉工程、改变西方人饮食习惯的可可豆、创造绿洲文明的椰枣树、日本小农的手作酱油、鼓励了爱尔兰民族主义运动的土豆……农业改变世界的同时，世界也重塑着农业。
中科院研究员审校和推荐，值得成为教材的农业史图书。以史无前例的去欧洲中心化的视角，对农业技术与人类制度、文化和传统的影响进行深入剖析。之前从来没有一本历史书把阿拉伯地区、中东、东南亚和南美洲作为主角凝结制度、知识、风尚、市场、生物特性，展现参差多态的农业文明间，持续千年的交流对话。
从郁金香到可可豆，阐明植物特性、农业产业、种植技术、农业制度等领域间错综复杂的关系，揭示史学界宏观叙事的狭隘性，发掘被压抑和忽视的亚洲、非洲、美洲文明中，应环境和时代而变的农业智慧。
作者简介：
[英]白馥兰（Francesca Bray)
当代国际汉学界、社会人类学界、科技史学界的重要学者，师承李约瑟。国际科学史学会主席，剑桥大学李约瑟研究院成员，加州大学圣芭芭拉分校、爱丁堡大学荣休教授，也是列奥纳多·达·芬奇奖章的获得者。著有《中国科学技术史·农业分册》(李约瑟主编)《稻米经济：亚洲社会的技术与发展》《技术与性别：晚期帝制中国的权力经纬》《世界文明中的技术》等。
[美]芭芭拉·哈恩（ Barbara Hahn）
得克萨斯理工大学历史学教授
[印]约翰·博斯克·卢杜萨米（John Bosco Lourdusamy）
印度理工学院马德拉斯分校历史学教授
[美]蒂亚戈·萨拉瓦（Tiago Saraiva）
德雷塞尔大学历史学教授
Crop Migration in World Civilizations
This book explores the impact of agriculture on humans by dissecting the cultural and meaningful changes that occurred when plants became crops.
This book mainly opposes the phenomenon that the historiography is dominated by Eurocentrism, adopts the vision of multi-civilization comparison, and praised China's millet cultivation, crop rotation, and crop diversification. This book is also a technical history of the book, the author of a historical analysis of the physical nature of plants.
The famous overseas Sinologist and student of Needham, Fulan, and his partners Barbara Hahn, Johan Bosco Ludusamy, and Thiago Sarava conducted a joint study of agricultural anthropology. Compare the agricultural wisdom from the perspective of different civilizations, explore the little-known agricultural civilization: the Middle East's tulip variety research and development system is hundreds of years ahead of the world; The Arab jujube oasis civilization is all-embracing and inclusive; The irrigation project that enabled ancient Asian civilizations to flourish, the cocoa bean that changed Western eating habits, the date palm that created an oasis civilization, the hand-made soy sauce made by small farmers in Japan, and the potato that inspired the Irish nationalist movement. As agriculture changes the world, the world is reshaping agriculture
The World History Association Bentley Book Award, the History of Technology Society Edelstein Award winning book, the modern edition of "Qi Min Yao Shu". Through the millennium, the global interaction of agricultural technology and civilization, how the agricultural wisdom carried by crops is spread through global trade exchange. How can neglected agricultural wisdom solve the problem of resource depletion and food shortage on Earth
The research of agricultural anthropology by the famous overseas Sinologist and Needham's student Fulan Baifulan compares the agricultural wisdom from the perspective of different civilizations, explores the little-known agricultural civilization, and the development system of tulip varieties in the Middle East. Arabian date oasis civilization is all-embracing and inclusive. The irrigation project that enabled ancient Asian civilizations to flourish, the cocoa bean that changed Western eating habits, the date palm that created an oasis civilization, the hand-made soy sauce made by small farmers in Japan, and the potato that inspired the Irish nationalist movement. As agriculture changes the world, the world is reshaping agriculture.
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers reviewed and recommended agricultural history books worthy of teaching material. An unprecedented, de-Eurocentric perspective on the impact of agricultural technologies on human institutions, cultures and traditions. Never before has a history book focused on the Arab region, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South America as the protagonists of institutions, knowledge, fashions, markets, and biological characteristics, illustrating the exchange and dialogue between diverse agricultural civilizations that lasted for thousands of years.
From tulips to cacao beans, it sheds light on the intricate relationships between plant characteristics, agricultural industries, cultivation techniques, and agricultural institutions, reveals the narrowness of the macro narrative of history, and uncovers the agricultural wisdom that changed in response to circumstances and times in repressed and neglected civilizations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
About the author:
[E] Francesca Bray
He is an important scholar in contemporary international sinology, social anthropology and history of science and technology. He is President of the International Society for the History of Science, a member of the Needham Institute at the University of Cambridge, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Edinburgh, and a recipient of the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal. He is the author of a History of Science and Technology in China: Agriculture (Ed. Joseph Needham), Rice Economy: Technology and Development in Asian Societies, Technology and Gender: Power in Late Imperial China, and Technology in World Civilization.
(U.S.) Barbara Hahn
Professor of History, Texas Tech University
[Print] John Bosco Lourdusamy
Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
[US] Tiago Saraiva
Professor of history at Drexel University
