Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside - Couverture rigide

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Cohen, Benjamin R.

 
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Synopsis

'Notes from the Ground' examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, the 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. By detailing the changing perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin Cohen shows that the credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge, and citizenship.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin R. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia.

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9780300177701: Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300177704 ISBN 13 :  9780300177701
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2012
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