Title: The Culture of the Wildnerness
First published: December 16, 1996
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.
Subjects: Agriculture, united states, history, West (u.s.), social life and customs, Civilization, Agriculture, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture, Landbouw, Cultuur, Technologie, Kolonisatie, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Agriculture - General, Landwirtschaft, Geschichte, Siedlung, Weststaaten, Land settlement, Conditions sociales, Conditions économiques