Notes from the ground
science, soil, and society in the American countryside
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Author
Publication
2009 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25337173M
- Internet Archivenotesfromgrounds0000cohe
- Internet Archivenotesfromgrounds0000cohe_a3x4
- ISBN-100300139233
- ISBN-139780300139235
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009928178
- OCLC Control Number317471735
- Better World Books9780300139235
Classifications
- LCCS590.73.U6 C64 2009
- LCCS624
- LCCS590.73.U6 C63 2009
Description
This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
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