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Fund Drive Special with Scott Reynolds Nelson

Wheat fields in Ukraine, Oblast Lviv. | Image by Raimond Spekking is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

On today’s show:

We discover how wheat built and broke empires with Scott Reynolds Nelson (@nelsonhist), professor of history at the University of Georgia.

Basic Books

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL — Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Scott Reynolds Nelson’s Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.