RHN 21/2026 | Publication
Miguel Cabo, Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto, Juan Pan-Montojo (eds.), Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World (Boydell Studies in Rural History, 9, Boydell Press 2026).
Table of Contents:
Introduction: From rural modernities to agricultural modernization. A new narrative
Miguel Cabo, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Juan Pan-Montojo
Part I. BRIDGES AND TRANSITIONS
Flow, stock, and epistemic change: using biotic and consuming mineral resources in agricultural production
Juri Auderset and Peter Moser
Inventing new seeds: genetics research and Iberian connections during the dictatorships
Dulce Freire
Racial productivism. Agrarian change under the Nazi regime in German-annexed Austria, 1938-1945
Ernst Langthaler
Agrarian parties in the twentieth century: rise and fall of an alternative modernity
Miguel Cabo
From the International Institute of Agriculture to the Food and Agriculture Organization
Federico D’Onofrio
Part II. AGRICULTURAL MODERNITIES AND MODERNISATION IN THEIR POLITICAL CONTEXTS
UK agriculture before and after the Second World War: agricultural policies and the adoption of new technologies, 1920-1970
Paul Brassley
The ‘Green Evolution’ in Denmark, 1930-1972
Thomas Christiansen
The ‘Green Revolution’ in the Red Zone: the case of socialist Hungarian agriculture
Zsuzsanna Varga
Reordering rural Congo. Agricultural development and the paysannats indigènes in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1950s
Yves Segers
Back to the future: international agrarian development in Ethiopia and the legacy of Italian colonialism
Michele Sollai
New models for agriculture in the post-war American Southern Cone
Luis Ernesto Blacha
‘Taking risks to create value’: agricultural modernisation and the making of ‘Progressive’ Indian farmers, 1947-1967
Madhumita Saha
Part III. THE TRIUMPH OF THE MODERNISING LOGIC AFTER 1945
Agricultural modernisation from a biophysical point of view: Spain, c. 1900-2008
Manuel González de Molina
The ‘modernisation’ of agriculture in the global South after 1945: Green Revolution as ‘American revolution’
Jonathan Harwood
US agricultural cooperation programmes in Latin America since World War II
Wilson Picado and José A. Fernández Molina
Gender and agricultural modernisation: agricultural extension in Spain and France in the 1960s and 1970s
Ana Cabana, Alba Díaz-Geada and Sylvain Brunier
Resisting the Green Revolution epic in Brazil and India
Poonam Pandey and Lidia Cabral
Full table of contents here.