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Sowing modernity : America's first agricultural revolution /

"Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial quetion was first directed persistently, per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McClelland, Peter D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The problem
  • The approach
  • Plowing
  • Sowing
  • Harrowing
  • Cultivating
  • Reaping
  • Threshing
  • Winnowing and straw cutting
  • Novus Ordo Seclorum?
  • Remedies for soil exhaustion
  • Breeding and raising livestock.