Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640

First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.
1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association

Author: Steve J. Stern
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.13w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780299141844
ISBN10: 0299141845
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | South America

About the Author

Steve J. Stern is professor of history and director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries and Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, both of which are published by the University of Wisconsin Press.