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

Cohen, Benjamin R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300177704 ISBN 13 : 9780300177701

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin R. Cohen is assistant professor at Lafayette College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300177704
• ISBN 13: 9780300177701
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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