Publication

2009 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Notes from the ground: science, soil, and society in the American countrysideYale University Press2009-01-01

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