The Culture of the Wildnerness
Agriculture As Colonization in the American West (Studies in Rural Culture)
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Author
Publication
1996-12-16 - The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7972568M
- ISBN-139780807845851
- ISBN-10080784585X
- OCLC Control Number42854329
- OCLC Control Number33818268
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Numbercultureofwildern0000knob
- Library of Congress Control Number95050148
- Goodreads518077
- LibraryThing1869867
Classifications
- LCC95-50148 [S]
Description
"In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the brood context of European and classical Roman agricultural history."--Book cover.
First Sentence
As Robert Pogue Harrison notes, forests have a long Western history as originary places: "From the beginning [that is, during the time of the Greeks and Romans] they appeared to our ancestors as archaic, as antecedent to the human world.
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