Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (Yale Agrarian Studies) (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

by Benjamin R. Cohen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $47.25

  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.