The Culture of the Wildnerness
Subtitle: Agriculture As Colonization in the American West (Studies in Rural Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 16, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780807845851
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Colonization & independence; Rural communities; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; Civilization; Technology; Nature/Ecology; USA; Agriculture - General; Anthropology - Cultural; United States - State & Local - West; History-United States - State & Local - West; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Technology-Agriculture - General; Agriculture; History; West (U.S.)
First sentence: As Robert Pogue Harrison notes, forests have a long Western history as originary places: "From the beginning [that is, during the time of the Greeks and Romans] they appeared to our ancestors as archaic, as antecedent to the human world.
Description: "In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the brood context of European and classical Roman agricultural history."--Book cover.