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Notes from the ground : science, soil, and society in the American countryside / Benjamin R. Cohen.
Van Pelt Library S590.73.U6 C63 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Benjamin R.
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies
- Yale agrarian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soil science--United States--History--19th century.
- Soils--Environmental aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Agriculture--United States--History--19th century.
- Agriculture--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Agriculture--Social aspects.
- History.
- Agriculture.
- Soils--Environmental aspects.
- Soil science.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- | Part I The Place of Science
- | 1 Distinguishing the Georgic 17
- | 2 The Science of Agriculture and Book Framing: Homespun Virtue, Dandy Vice, and the Credibility of Chimical Men in Rural America 49
- | 3 Knowing Nature, Dabbling with Davy 81
- | Part II The Science of Place
- | 4 The Agricultural Society, the Planter, and the Slave: Producing Scientific Views of Virginia County Lands 127
- | 5 The Geological Survey, the Professor, and His Assistants: Producing Scientific Views of the State of Virginia 166
- | 6 Agriculture, Ethics, and the Future of Georgic Science 197.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300139235
- 0300139233
- OCLC:
- 317471735
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