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  • Ethanol
    Jeffrey T. Manuel / Thomas D. Rogers
    Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years-good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle?-its use goes back more than a century. Tracing the little-known history of this promising and contentious fuel, Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels reveals the transnational nature of ethan...
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    35,37 €

  • Agriculture’s Energy
    Thomas D. Rogers
    Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and ...
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    37,94 €

  • Agriculture’s Energy
    Thomas D. Rogers
    Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and ...
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    126,80 €

  • The Deepest Wounds
    Thomas D. Rogers / Thomas DRogers
    In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil’s key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming — th...
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    54,26 €