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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE- FRONT COVER -- ADAPTING TO CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1: NARRATIVES OF CHANGE IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE -- The settings and scope of the book -- Conceptual background: unpacking uncertainty and knowledge politics -- Overview of chapters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART I: UNCERTAINTY FROM ABOVE AND BELOW -- References -- CHAPTER 2: CONSTRUCTING UNCERTAINTY 'FROM ABOVE': KNOWLEDGE AND NARRATIVES OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION -- Complex science for complex systems -- Climate model outputs and incomplete knowledge -- Closing down to probabilistic forecasts and quantified uncertainty -- Prospects for opening up climate science -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3: CONSTRUCTING UNCERTAINTY 'FROM BELOW': CONTINUAL ADAPTATION IN KENYAN SMALLHOLDER FARMING -- Knowledge production in a context of uncertainty -- Information gaps and unknowns -- Value judgements and ambiguities -- Closing down and opening up: socially constructed barriers to adaptation -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II: TECHNOLOGIES OF AGRICULTURAL CHANGE -- References -- CHAPTER 4: BREEDING FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE: THE CASE OF 'DROUGHT-TOLERANT' AND 'WATER-EFFICIENT' MAIZE FOR AFRICA -- The DTMA and WEMA narratives of future agriculture -- Ambiguous breeding and uncertain performance -- Assumptions about farmer adoption and socio-economic impacts -- Contested priorities: GM as the best technology for breeding? -- Closed-down crop breeding: exclusive science and intellectual ownership -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 5: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE IN ZAMBIA AND MALAWI.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins -- 3. Early Atmospherics -- 4. Champions of Human Rights -- 5. Two Americanists -- 6. Thinking about Justice -- 7. Foreign-Born Radicals -- 8. Two Magazines -- 9. The Sixties -- 10. Champions of Civil Rights -- 11. Racial Grievance: January 1969 -- 12. Native-Born Outlaws -- 13. Spasms of Violence -- 14. Thinking about Capitalism -- 15. The Travail of Reform -- 16. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds -- 2. Seeing Red: The Stigma -- 3. Assenting: The Trend of Ideology -- 4. Praying: God Bless America -- 5. Informing: Many Are Called -- 6. Reeling: The Politics of Film -- 7. Boxed-In: Television and the Press -- 8. Dissenting: Pity the Land -- 9. Thawing: A Substitute for Victory -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Of course it's brilliant. The Free World represents the hugely ambitious culmination of the efforts of a scholar of exceptional talent to explicate mid-century American culture, and to put it within a broad political and social context. With its immense attention to detail, The Free World frequently offers such fresh readings of a wide variety of topics that perhaps only subspecialists can profess to find familiar the evidence and interpretations that Louis Menand provides. It is emblazoned with bold personal opinions that keep the reader interested. At the Center is a very different book. It is a collective effort, and the authors seem to seek to avoid the kind of personalized style that Menand displays. But the effort that Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick make to tie the disparate threads together distinguish At the Center from Menand's volume, and therefore offer an invaluable contrast. These books are aimed at different categories of reader, provide divergent temporal and geographic frames, and rarely overlap in attentiveness to the same material. Such variations can make for vigorous scholarly arguments about how to pack thought and culture into American historiography.