Notes from the ground
Subtitle: science, soil, and society in the American countryside
By: Benjamin R. Cohen
Series: Yale agrarian studies series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300139235
Subjects: Soils; Landwirtschaft; Soil science; Agronomie; Agriculture; History
Description: This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Distinguishing the georgic; title: "The science of agriculture and book farming" : homespun virtue, dandy vice, and the credibility of "chimical men" in rural America; title: Knowing nature, dabbling with Davy; title: The agricultural society, the planter, and the slave : producing scientific views of Virginia county lands; title: The geological survey, the professor, and his assistants : producing scientific views of the state of Virginia; title: Agriculture, ethics, and the future of georgic science.