Notes from the Ground : Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside Paperback / softback
by Benjamin R. Cohen
Part of the Yale Agrarian Studies Series series
Paperback / softback
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Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America. 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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 29 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2011
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- ISBN:9780300177701
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 29 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300177701
