272 pages
English language
Published 2009 by Yale University Press.
Notes from the ground
science, soil, and society in the American countryside Yale agrarian studies series
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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.
Subjects
- Soils
- Landwirtschaft
- Soil science
- Agronomie
- Agriculture
- History
Places
- United States
- USA
- Etats-Unis