Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific

Contents: Introduction; Dispersion and Diffusion of Seeds and Food Plants: Introduction of American food plants into China, Ping-ti Ho; American food plants in China, Ping-Ti Ho; The early impact of Japan upon American agriculture, H.F. Graff; Early coconut culture in western Mexico, H.J. Bruman; The peripatetic chili pepper: diffusion of the domesticated capsicums since Columbus, J. Andrews; Diplomats and plant collectors: the South American commission, 1817-18, W.D. Rasmussen. Systems of Production and the Impact of the Spanish Conquest: Agricultural biodiversity and peasant rights to subsistence in the central Andes during Inca rule, K.S. Zimmerer; Landscapes of cultivation in Mesoamerica on the eve of the conquest, Thomas M. Whitmore and B.L. Turner II; Chinese plantation workers and social conflict in Peru in the late 19th century, M. Gonzales; Free versus compulsory labor: Mexico and the Philippines, 1540-1648, J.L. Phelan. Migration of Rural People Across the Region: Chinese settlements in rural southeast Asia: unwritten histories, M.S. Heidhues; Hawaiian labor and immigration problems before annexation, W.A. Russ Jr.; Socioeconomic origins of emigration: Guangdong to California, 1850-82, J. Mei; Chinese livelihood in rural California: the impact of economic change, 1860-80, S. Chan; History of Japanese migration to Peru, part I, I. Toraji and W. Himel. Integration of Markets and the Stimulus to Agriculture: Supply and transportation for the Potosi, 1545-1640, G.B. Cobb; The poetics of American agriculture, P.A. Coclanis; Gold rushes and the trans-Pacific wheat trade: California and Australia, 1848-57, J. Gerber; The passage to India revisited: Asian trade and the development of the Far West, 1850-1900, T. Cox. Index.