Agricultural and Rural History
| Numbering Code | U-AGR04 3D307 LJ82 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | 3rd year students | Target Student | ||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Wed.2 | |
| Instructor name | ADACHI YOSHIHIRO (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
Theme: The Formation of the 20th Century Agricultural World-Attempts to Understand Agricultural and Rural History from a Global Perspective This course will examine the following using modern Europe and North America: (1) the perspective of global agricultural history and environmental history; (2) the relationship between people's lives, capital, and the nation (perspective of social history); and (3) while keeping these points in mind, the process of development of the modern agricultural world in the 19th to 20th century, which is rich in diversity. This lecture consists of three parts. * Part I discusses the British Agricultural Revolution, the origin of modern agriculture, and its involvement with ecological issues (e.g., soil and fertilizer) and the development of the global British Empire. * Part II discusses how "nationalization" occurred in agriculture and farming villages in the subsequent transition period of the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on agricultural trade, agricultural migration, cooperative associations, and agricultural administration, mainly in Germany. * Part III, the main focus of this course, discusses the process of formation of 20th Century Agriculture in the Soviet Union, the United States, and Germany, focusing on the interwar periods from the First World War to the establishment of the Cold War structure from 1914 to 1960. This part focuses on the progress of industrialization of agriculture while making solid connections with the national integration of the agricultural sector against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the World Wars. It emphasizes reconsidering the historical issues of the periods (socialist Stalinism, racism under the New Deal, and German Nazism) as the agricultural and rural issues arise. Overall, the course aims to explain the relationships among various problems surrounding modern-day agriculture, food, and environment, their relationships with capital and the nation, and the formation of agriculture in the modern world through these relationships. |
|||
| Course Goals |
・Acquire basic knowledge of agricultural and rural history, which are essential for understanding international agricultural, food, and environmental issues ・Acquire an intellectual attitude toward understanding agricultural history from a global perspective rather than a single-system nation-state framework and think developmentally. Also, be able to determine potential research questions on agricultural history. ・Understand the importance of modern Japan's (and the world's) agricultural, food, and environmental issues from the perspective of agricultural history |
|||
| Schedule and Contents |
・The course consists of 3 parts, but each lecture will cover one topic based on the following plan. Lecture 1: Outline of the course Part I: Formulation of the “prototype” of modern agriculture: focusing on the British Empire Lecture 2: The British Agricultural Revolution: the origin of modern agriculture Lecture 3: High farming of UK Agriculture: the modern history of nitrogen Lecture 4: Cotton plantations and Western development: global agriculture and environmental issues in Pax Britannica Part II: Transformation at the end of the century: focusing on Germany (1873-1914) Lecture 5: Origin of grain trade frictions: formation of world agricultural markets and agricultural protectionism Lecture 6: Beets and foreign workers: problems with the Polish in agriculture in Germany Part III: The history of the 20th century from the perspectives of food and agriculture: revolutions, the Depression, and the World Wars Lecture 7: Collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union: Stalinism and farmers Lecture 8: The Lysenko Incident and agriculture in the Soviet Union: the “negative” history of 20th-century agriculture Lecture 9: The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal agricultural administration: the “prototype” of conservation agriculture in the 20th century Lecture 10: The Southern Landscape Problem and the New Deal agricultural administration: the “poor Whites” problem and the dismantlement of plantations Lecture 11: Problems of California agriculture and mobile Workers: from Mexican braceros to Okies Lecture 12: Acceptance of Nazism in German rural areas Lecture 13: Agriculture and food policies of the “Third Empire” of Nazi Germany: Market control, food self-sufficiency policies, and resource recovery of occupied areas Lecture 14: Agricultural development in the postwar world: collectivization of agriculture, common agricultural administration, and agribusiness Lecture 15: Feedback |
|||
| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
・Ten or more attendances are mandatory. ・Grading will tentatively be based on usual performance scores (10%), two small reports (20 × 2 = total 40%), and the final report (50%). The first small report covers the lecture content of Part I and Part II; the second small report covers topics related to the lecture content of Part III. The final report is a review of literature related to this course. All of these must be submitted on PandA. ・Grading criteria and policies are based on the grading criteria and policies described in the Handbook of the Faculty of Agriculture for the applicable year. |
|||
| Course Requirements | None in particular | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | A list of references will be provided during the first lecture. Please systematically read the relevant literature for your topics of interest and use what you have gained from the lectures and readings in the two small reports and the final report. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | None | ||
| References, etc. | Will be introduced during the lectures. | |||
