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Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside

Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside( )
Author: Cohen, Benjamin R.
Series title:Yale Agrarian Studies
ISBN:978-1-282-35221-6
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $55.00
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Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian Americans--yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike--accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land. By detailing the changing perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin Cohen shows that the...
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Pages:272



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