UID:
almafu_9959236824002883
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-35221-0
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9786612352218
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0-300-15492-5
Series Statement:
Yale agrarian studies series
Content:
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 credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge, and citizenship.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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1. Distinguishing the Georgic --
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2. ''The Science of Agriculture and Book Farming'' --
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3. Knowing Nature, Dabbling with Davy --
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4. The Agricultural Society, the Planter, and the Slave --
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5. The Geological Survey, the Professor, and His Assistants --
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6. Agriculture, Ethics, and the Future of Georgic Science --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-13923-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300154924
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