Format:
1 online resource (427 pages)
ISBN:
9780300171846
Series Statement:
Yale Agrarian Studies
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780-1825 -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) -- Alexander Hamilton, from Report on the Subject of Manufactures (1791) -- The National Gazette, from "An Old Prophecy" (1792) -- and a letter to the editor (1792) -- John Taylor of Caroline, from Arator (1813) -- James Madison, from "An Address Delivered before the Albemarle, Va., Agricultural Society" (1818) -- William Cobbett, from Journal of a Year's Residence in America (1819) -- 2. A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825-1860 -- Jesse Buel, from The Farmer's Companion (1839) -- George Perkins Marsh, from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County" (1847) -- Wilson Flagg, "Agricultural Progress" (1859) -- George Henry Evans and the Working Men's Movement, "A Memorial to Congress" (1844) -- and "Vote Yourself a Farm" (1846) -- George Washington Julian, "Speech before Congress on the Homestead Bill" (1851) -- Edmund Ruffin, from "An Address on the Opposite Results of Exhausting and Fertilizing Systems of Agriculture" (1852) -- 3. The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism -- Albert Brisbane, "False Association, Established by the Capitalists, Contrasted with True Association" (1846) -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842) -- Louisa May Alcott, from "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873) -- Andrew Jackson Downing, "Cockneyism in the Country" (1849) -- Susan Fenimore Cooper, from Rural Hours (1850) -- Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854) -- 4. Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860-1910 -- Thomas Starr King, from "Address before the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society" (1862) -- Orson Hyde, from "Instructions" (1867).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300137095
Additional Edition:
Print version American Georgics : Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe American georgics New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 9780300137095
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Landwirtschaft
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Geschichte 1780-2011
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