Colonial Policy, Ecological Transformations, and Agricultural “Improvement”: Comparing Agricultural Yields and Expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870–1925 CE

• Main Authors: Findley, David Max, Amano, Noel, Biong, Ivana, Bankoff, Greg, Dacudao, Patricia Irene, Gealogo, Francis A, Hamilton, Rebecca, Pagunsan, Ruel, Roberts, Patrick
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Asian History; History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/124; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/history-faculty-pubs/article/1129/viewcontent/s41599_024_03310_z.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Burgeoning global trade and colonial policies promoted transformations in land use and agriculture throughout tropical regions in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the local and regional ecological consequences of landscape changes are still being identified and analysed. The Philippine Archipelago,...