00:08 Scott Reynolds Nelson, professor of humanities at the University of Georgia who’s written a series of histories looking at railroads, the civil war, and financial crises in 19th-century America. His latest looks at how one crop built and broke empires – it’s called Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World [rebroadcast of an interview originally recorded in 2022]

The post Scott Reynolds Nelson on Grain and Empire [repeat] appeared first on KPFA.