How Long to Read The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress

How Long Does it Take to Read The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress by Cameron Muir

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century. Ecological disorder and inequity is at the heart of our food system. This thoughtful and confronting book tells the story of how the development of modern agriculture promised ecological and social stability but instead descended into dysfunction. Contributing to knowledge in environmental, cultural and agricultural histories, it explores how people have tried to live in the aftermath of ‘ecological imperialism’. The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An environmental history journeys to the dry inland plains of Australia where European ideas and agricultural technologies clashed with a volatile and taunting country that resisted attempts to subdue and transform it for the supply of global markets. Its wide-ranging narrative puts gritty local detail in its global context to tell the story of how cultural anxieties about civilisation, population, and race, shaped agriculture in the twentieth century. It ranges from isolated experiment farms to nutrition science at the League of Nations, from local landholders to high profile moral crusaders, including an Australian apricot grower who met Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost fed the world. This book will be useful to undergraduates and postgraduates on courses examining international comparisons of nineteenth and twentieth century agriculture, and courses studying colonial development and settler societies. It will also appeal to food concerned general readers.

How long is The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress?

The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress by Cameron Muir is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress aloud.

What Reading Level is The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress?

The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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