Book (Practical) History in general World History of Cereals / Scott Reynolds Nelson / yumi Yamaoka

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HISTORY IN GENERAL
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In order to understand the rise and fall of the empire in its long history, it is necessary to follow the path taken by grain -- along rivers, between ports, and across the sea. Author and historian Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to control the grain path has changed the power balance of the world.
In the early 19th century, the Tsarist Shea fed much of Shea through Ukraine's booming port of Odesa on the Black Sea. After the American Civil War, however, food prices plummeted as large quantities of American wheat began to flow across the Atlantic into Europe. Cheap foreign grains spurred the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, and European competition for power, and became a decisive factor in the outbreak of World War I and the Russian and European revolutions.
With a compelling new interpretation of the rise and fall of nations, the book tells of the unrivalled power of the rule of grain in the midst of great power rivalry.