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From Thomas Jeffersons Monticello to Michelle Obamas White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, writers from Hector St. Je...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hagenstein, Edwin C. (Editor ), Gregg, Sara M. (Editor ), Donahue, Brian, 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
Colección:Yale agrarian studies.
Temas:
Agriculture > United States > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
Agriculture
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Shaping the agrarian republic, 1780-1825
  • A nation of farmers: the promise and peril of American agriculture, 1825-1860
  • The machine in the garden: the rise of American romanticism
  • Agriculture in an industrializing nation, 1860-1910
  • Agrarians in an industrial nation, 1900-1945
  • Southern agrarianism, 1925-1940
  • Back to the land again, 1940-present.

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