Notes from the ground : science, soil, and society in the American countryside / Benjamin R. Cohen.

Author
Cohen, Benjamin R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Description
xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Distinguishing the georgic
    • "The science of agriculture and book farming" : homespun virtue, dandy vice, and the credibility of "chimical men" in rural America
    • Knowing nature, dabbling with Davy
    • The agricultural society, the planter, and the slave : producing scientific views of Virginia county lands
    • The geological survey, the professor, and his assistants : producing scientific views of the state of Virginia
    • Agriculture, ethics, and the future of georgic science.
    ISBN
    • 9780300139235 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0300139233 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780300177701 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0300177704 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009928178
    OCLC
    317471735
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