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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin R Cohen |
| ISBN: | 9780300139235 0300139233 9780300177701 0300177704 |
| OCLC Number: | 317471735 |
| Description: | xii, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Yale agrarian studies. |
| Responsibility: | Benjamin R. Cohen. |
Abstract:
Examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. This book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
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""Notes from the Ground" encompasses the entire subject of science and the environment during the nineteenth century. Cohen writes with grace, clarity, and insight about the 'georgic science' of American farmers--a philosophy that resonates in the present, meant to 'reveal rather than conceal our connections to the land.'"--Steven Stoll, author of "Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America"--Steven Stoll Read more...
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