Turbulent Virginia: Pirate Base...Royal Colony: England Revises Approach to Colonization and Establishes Royal Colony of Virginia
England and its Virginia Company surrogate take steps to revise their approach to colonization yet again. They increase incentives for families willing to migrate, attempt to attract merchants rather than aristocrats, and develop agricultural produc...
The Food and Agriculture Industries: Sugar Production, Fertilizer and Phosphate Levels
About one quarter of U.S. sugar is produced in Florida. Intensive agricultural production in this environmentally sensitive region requires careful waste management. For example, one of the main issues threatening the Everglades is the amount of p...
Rise and Fall: Population, Urbanization and the Environment
For Fresno, California, as with many other U.S. cities, this is a time of uncertainty, as it seeks to chart a course to the future, amidst an often conflicting array of social, political and economic forces.
Something in the Air: Monsoons
Monsoons are seasonal patterns of wind circulation associated with large amounts of summer rainfall and thus favorable conditions for agriculture. Monsoon climates exist in Africa, Asia, Northern Australia and, to some extent, the Americas. About si...
Worlds Apart: Mechanization of Agriculture, The
Agriculture itself is being transformed in the 19th century as it too becomes responsive to prices and market requirements. As an offshoot of the changes occurring in other commercial ventures, farming is also becoming more mechanized. The flat land...
Rise and Fall: Population, Urbanization and the Environment
Part of the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley in central California, Fresno is a city in transition. While it maintains its links with the land and its past, Fresno faces many of the same growing pains, including crime and pollution, that char...