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This book owes a great deal to many individuals and institutions, without whose support the story of organic farming as told in this book would be impossible. I worked on this project while employed as a permanent Research Fellow at The Australian National University, and as Professor of History at my current employers, Western Sydney University and the University of Johannesburg. The Australian Research Council generously provided a grant that took me to archives around the globe. Dr. Frederik Kruger, one of the leading lights in the history of ecological research from the 1980s to the present, generously read this draft and offered innumerable constructive comments. Dr. Adam Lucas, historian of science at the University of Wollongong, helpfully read the early chapters. Michael Bennett kindly read numerous chapters. An initial paper on the topic benefited from a seminar run by Dr. Brett Bennett and Anthony Hopkins in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. Dr. Tatshushi Fujihara, from Kyoto University, kindly scanned and forwarded vital documents on the history of organic farming in Japan, including sections of his own work. Toshi Asakura-Ward translated these documents from Japanese into English and without his work, funded by Western Sydney University, the story of the organic farming movement in Japan would not have been made available to the English-speaking world. My mentor, Harold Perkin, now deceased, continued to inspire with his example of understanding global history through the analysis of social history. The Journal of Agricultural History, Itinerario and Palgrave Macmillan have generously allowed me to reprint sections of two articles and a book chapter, respectively. I have benefited from discussions with the historian John Paull and from the organic farmer Steve Solomon in Tasmania who runs an extensive online archive, the Soil and Health Library.
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