"Eddens offers both an unusually accessible entrée for readers new to this topic, and a trenchant analysis of the Green Revolution <i>as discourse</i>. In so doing, Eddens directs readers to the power wielded by stories."

Society for U.S. Intellectual History

"[Eddens]  makes a crucial contribution to scholarship on agrarian change in contemporary Africa, which—despite many other angles of important critique—has often ignored less-than-overt dynamics of race and racialization. Even scholars less interested in the specifics of the New Green Revolution in Africa will find value in Edden’s efforts to trace these logics and examine their shifting manifestations. . . . He examines beneath the soil, probing roots and continuities, while laying groundwork for other scholars who may seek to examine the fruits of this empire."

Antipode

"Eddens’s rather top-down analysis of the driving logics of Green Revolution memory makes an excellent case for the importance of bottom-up perspectives in development."

H-Net

<p>“A masterful study of ongoing Green Revolution initiatives in Africa. . . .Compellingly and concisely narrated.”</p>

Agriculture and Human Values

<p>“An empir­i­cally rich histor­ical account of twen­ti­eth and twenty-first century agri­cul­tural scien­tists work­ing to trans­form Mex­i­cans and maize through mod­ern sci­ence.”</p>

Agricultural History

<p>“Fascinating and well-researched.”</p>

Diplomatic History

<p>"A critical narrative through-line that helps readers understand the integrated and durable set of logics that motivate philanthrocapitalism.”</p>

Environment and Society