Core and hinterland: What’s what and why it matters

Reblog from Adam Boxer, this explains my use of the word Hinterland in the context of my forthcoming book.

In 1918, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to a war criminal. In the early years of the 20th century, German scientist Fritz Haber developed a process to artificially synthesise ammonia, a vital component of agricultural fertilisers. A reaction that changed the world, his process drove a ballooning in industrial agriculture and, with the […]

Core and hinterland: What’s what and why it matters