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A New Idea Each Morning: How food and agriculture came together in one international organisation

"The creation of an international organisation bringing together the needs of the hungry and the interests of farmers seems so logical that it is hard to imagine how revolutionary it was in the first half of the twentieth century"--Intrduction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Way, Wendy
Formato: Software eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU Press, 2013.
Colección:PANDORA electronic collection
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary pages; Illustration; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; Imperial Currency and Weights; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part A: Visions of Empire; Prologue; 1. Renmark; 2. Working with Bruce; 3. A Vision of Empire; 4. The Vision Ends; Part B: The League of Nations; Prologue; 5. The Wheat Crisis of the 1930s; 6. 'The Marriage of Health and Agriculture'; 7. A Vision for the League of Nations; Part C: A New Deal for the World; Prologue; 8. The War of Ideas; 9. 'A Keen Outsider'; 10. 'A New Era in the World's History'; Afterword; Appendix I; Appendix 2.