Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies) (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies) (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Book

Examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. This 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.Read More

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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 credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge, and citizenship.

  • 0300139233
  • 9780300139235
  • BR Cohen
  • 16 October 2009
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 288
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