Breaking new ground: from the history of agriculture to the history of food systems.

Abstract. The author makes the case for an integrated approach to the close attention of agricultural history, an approach that explicitly unites matters pertaining to agricultural production, broadly conceived, to those pertaining to agricultural input acquisition and to the distribution and consumption of agricultural output Drawing heavily upon the economic approach known as input-output analysis (associated with the Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief, and adapted to agriculture by the agency of John H. Davis and Ray A. Goldberg), the author lays without his systems approach to agricultural