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Notes from the ground : science, soil, and society in the American countryside /
This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: THE PLACE OF SCIENCE
- 1 Distinguishing the Georgic
- 2 ''The Science of Agriculture and Book Farming'': Homespun Virtue, Dandy Vice, and the Credibility of ''Chimical Men'' in Rural America
- 3 Knowing Nature, Dabbling with Davy
- PART II: THE SCIENCE OF PLACE
- 4 The Agricultural Society, the Planter, and the Slave: Producing Scientific Views of Virginia County Lands
- 5 The Geological Survey, the Professor, and His Assistants: Producing Scientific Views of the State of Virginia
- 6 Agriculture, Ethics, and the Future of Georgic ScienceNotes
- Bibliography
- Index
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