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The world's greatest fix : a history of nitrogen and agriculture / G.J. Leigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leigh, G. J., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nitrogen fertilizers--History.
- Nitrogen fertilizers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leigh tells the story of how humans have used their ingenuity throughout history to maintain soil fertility, and to avoid famine through productive agriculture.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Nitrogen Fixation, Agriculture, and the Environment; 2 The Development of Agriculture; 3 The Development of English Agriculture and the Recognition of the Fertiliser Deficit; 4 The Discovery of Nitrogen and the Disappearance of Alchemical Nitre; 5 The Triumph of Industrial Chemistry; 6 The Continuing Mystery of Biological Nitrogen Fixation; 7 Nitrogen, Threat or Benefaction?; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029015-3
- 0-19-756213-2
- 1-280-53293-9
- 1-4237-2083-0
- 0-19-803707-4
- 1-60256-691-7
- OCLC:
- 171572915
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