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Notes from the Ground - Cohen, Benjamin R. - Yale University Press
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Sep 21, 2009
288 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
29 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300139235
ISBN-10: 0300139233
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Cloth: $55.00 tx
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- Related Categories
- Science
History
- Series Information
- Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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Notes from the GroundScience, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside
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.
Benjamin R. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia. He lives in Palmyra, VA.
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