“Beware the Stories We Tell About Food”: Ben Stanley on Aaron Eddens, *Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa* | Society for US Intellectual History
The Green Revolution is not only a constellation of technologies and economic relationships. It is also, crucially, a story. So Aaron Eddens argues in the persuasive monograph Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024). While many books have critiqued the Green Revolution, Eddens offers both
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