Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300177704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cohen is assistant professor at Lafayette College.. Benjamin R
Nye?Cohen takes readers back to the Early Republic to explore how people thought about land and production, ingeniously demonstrating how day-to-day labor in fields and barns led farmers to adopt and create their own scientific approaches. Nye, author of America as Second Creation -- David E. Cohen writes with grace, clarity, and insight about the ''georgic science'' of American farmersa philosophy that resonates in the present, meant to ''reveal rather than conceal our connections to the land.''"Steven Stoll, author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America -- Steven Stoll"Cohen takes readers back to the Early Republic to explore how people thought about land and production, ingeniously demonstrating how day-to-day labor in fields and barns led farmers to adopt and create their own scientific app
'Notes From the Ground' examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America.