Food for Thought: Food and Agriculture in the History of the Americas

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This course is an introduction to the history of food and agriculture in the Americas. We will examine key topics such as the domestication of plants and animals several thousand years ago, food production + consumption in pre-Columbian societies, the impact of European colonialism + colonial systems of food production across the Americas farming in the 19th century, the industrialization of agriculture in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the US and Latin America, the Green Revolution, organic agriculture and alternatives to industrial agriculture in the Americas in the past few decades, and the future of food + agriculture.