{"id":45961,"date":"2022-10-13T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=45961"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:46:42","slug":"grain-changer-utc-to-host-discussion-on-how-wheat-shifted-world-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/grain-changer-utc-to-host-discussion-on-how-wheat-shifted-world-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Grain changer: UTC to host discussion on how wheat shifted world power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 19th century, Russia fed a large portion of Europe via the thriving port of Odessa, located on the Black Sea in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>However, during the Civil War, quantities of American wheat started to stream across the Atlantic, resulting in a sharp decline in food prices in Europe. The development of Germany and Italy and the fall of the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire were all influenced by the cheap foreign grain\u2014which played a significant role in the start of the Russian Revolution and World War I.<\/p>\n<p>The premise that American wheat changed the balance of world power is the subject of a panel discussion being hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History on Friday, Oct. 21. The event, titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Grain Got To Do With It?\u201d will begin at 7 p.m. in the Guerry Center Reading Room.<\/p>\n<p>Open to the general public, the presentation is designed to explain the role of grain historically and present day.<\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion was the idea of Bill Keener, the owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequatchiecovefarm.com\/\">Sequatchie Cove Farm<\/a>\u2014a diversified 300-acre farm located about 35 minutes northwest of downtown Chattanooga near the Cumberland Plateau. Sequatchie Cove Farm, a mainstay of the weekly Chattanooga Main Street Farmers Market, is one of the event\u2019s co-sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For 25 years, we have been growing and selling food, promoting a local food economy, working on ways to develop a stronger regional food source and ways to connect farmers to families,&#8221; Keener said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About five years ago after reading James Scott&#8217;s book, &#8220;Against the Grain,&#8221; which is a deep history of humanity, I realized that grain\u2014the core of our diet\u2014has not been in any of my equations. I began to learn about what other parts of the country and the world are doing to develop a stable, regional grain supply.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45962\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"813\" data-attachment-id=\"45962\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/grain-changer-utc-to-host-discussion-on-how-wheat-shifted-world-power\/2019-scott_biggest\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 2 XL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1552318057&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.459&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;78&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001069&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2019-Scott_biggest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-45962\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-610x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-610x813.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-580x773.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/2019-Scott_biggest.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Panelists coming to UTC include historian <a href=\"https:\/\/history.uga.edu\/directory\/people\/scott-reynolds-nelson\">Scott Reynolds Nelson<\/a>, Georgia Athletic Association Professor at the University of Georgia, and Mike McLain, regional manager for King Arthur Baking Company.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson is the author of numerous books, including the recently released \u201cOceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cOceans of Grain,\u201d Nelson detailed the paths traveled by grain\u2014along rivers, between ports, and across seas\u2014and told the story of how these routes transformed the balance of world power. His interpretation: Amid the great powers\u2019 rivalries, there is no greater power than control of grain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a former network engineer, I\u2019ve always been interested in logistics and its relationship to power,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cHow did the Southern Railway control politics in the South after the Civil War? How did John Henry rewrite the history of the South with a tunnel through the Appalachians? How have rapid changes in commodity prices brought depressions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling this book \u201cmy white whale,\u201d Nelson said he looked at conflicts between the U.S. and the Russian Empire from the 1700s to the Russian Revolution, mostly over their ability to feed Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo do that,\u201d he said, \u201cI had to go back to 2800 BC, describe how food and plague shaped the Middle Ages and why a chokepoint at Istanbul was the world\u2019s chokepoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson was asked what audience members should expect to learn by coming to this panel discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne issue is how to see the world the way that international grain traders see it,\u201d he said, \u201cand if we do that, we see the strategic and geopolitical importance of Ukraine. Russia\u2019s current invasion of Ukraine\u2014in this framework\u2014is just one of many attempts by Russia to control the Black Sea for wheat exports, a conflict that caused over eight wars between 1800 and 1900.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"890\" data-attachment-id=\"45968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/grain-changer-utc-to-host-discussion-on-how-wheat-shifted-world-power\/book-jacket\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Book-Jacket.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"599,890\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Wasserstrom, Chuck&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1665572745&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Book Jacket\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Book-Jacket.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45968 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Book-Jacket.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Book-Jacket.jpg 599w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/Book-Jacket-580x862.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>\u201cMore broadly, the book gets us to see empires and states as flecks of foam on a much longer-term wave of international food trade, a trade that\u2019s 5,000 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McLain will explain the process that takes grain from the fields to the mills to the bread on peoples\u2019 plates. King Arthur Baking Company, known initially as Henry Wood &amp; Company when founded in 1790, began milling flour from American-grown wheat in the 1820s.<\/p>\n<p>UTC associate lecturer Mark Johnson will moderate the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need this forum on grain right now because everything has a history,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWith the invasion of Ukraine, we know there\u2019s a history there, but it goes so much further back than most people know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need this story because cheap American grain changed the world. We need to eat; it\u2019s absolutely necessary, but we don\u2019t pay enough attention to how food affects politics, diplomacy and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second \u201cWhat\u2019s Grain Got To Do With It?\u201d event will occur at Sewanee: The University of the South on Saturday, Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p><em>Location<\/em><em>: The Guerry Center is located near the southeast corner of Chamberlain Field in the center of the UTC campus. Parking is available in the Lot 12\/Lupton Hall parking garage (middle or lower levels); t<\/em><em>here is no charge after 5 p.m. on weekdays and weekends. In addition, free street parking is available after 6 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise that American wheat changed the balance of world power is the subject of a panel discussion being hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History on Friday, Oct. 21. 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