Table of Contents

1: Roots of the Organic Challenge
2: The Cultural Soil of Organic Farming
3: Albert Howard and the World as Shropshire
4: The Howards in India
5: The Search for Pre-Modern Wisdom
6: The Compost Wars
7: To the Empire and Beyond
8: The Globalization of Organic Farming
9: The 1980s to the Present

About the Author

Gregory A. Barton is a noted historian of British, world, and environmental history. He is Professor of History at Western Sydney University and the University of Johannesburg, and is the author of Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism, Lord Palmeston and the Empire of Trade, and Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture.

Reviews

An engaging study. Summing Up: Recommended.
*J. L. Hatfield, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, CHOICE*