James Gerber and Lei Guang
Ashgate
Hardback
424
2006
This volume brings together key studies from across several disciplines to examine the history of trans-Pacific rural and agricultural connections and to show an agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier when crops and plants dispersed agricultural systems proliferated and rural people migrated across oceans.