1. Aboriginal Ontario
   Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
2. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
3. Agnes Macphail
   Champion of the Underdog
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   
4. Bracero History Archive
   Resource Type: Database
   The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
5. Broken Heartland
   The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Today, the idea of a return to nature, which a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper, first described twenty five years ago in a scholarly article entitled "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," has become central to almost any conversation about the region's future.
6. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
   Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1969
   The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
7. A century of sugar and tears
   Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
8. Collective farming
   Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
   Resource Type: Article
   Collective farming and communal farming are types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise. This type of collective is essentially an agricultural production cooperative in which members-owners engage jointly in farming activities.
9. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
10. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
11. The Emergence of Marx's Critique of Modern Agriculture
    Ecological Insights from His Excerpt Notebooks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Examining Marx’s notebooks, one realizes that he first attained a truly critical and ecological comprehension of modern agriculture in the middle of the 1860s. Although Marx was at first optimistic about the positive effects of modern agriculture based on the application of natural sciences and technology, he later came to emphasize the negative consequences of agriculture under capitalism precisely because of such an application, illustrating how it inevitably brings about disharmonies in the transhistorical “metabolism” (Stoffwechsel) between human beings and nature.
12. Farmers Confront Industrialism
    Some Historical Perspectives on Ontario Agrarian Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
13. Farming and Food
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
14. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
15. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
16. The guardians of the Andean potato
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    More than 2,800 types of potatoes are known to have originated in Peru. The existence of these varieties can be attributed to the high value the Quechua people place on their cultural traditions and biological diversity.
17. Guns, Germs and Steel
    A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
18. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
19. Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Henry Bernstein, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has for decades been at the forefront of research into the class structure and political economy of agriculture.
20. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
21. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
22. Marx as a Food Theorist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
23. Marx and Nature
    A Red and Green Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
24. A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
25. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
26. Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
27. Peasant, Citizen and Slave
    The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
28. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
29. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
30. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
31. A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
    with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
32. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
33. Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
    The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
34. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    

Experts on Agricultural History in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History