Pawley Emily - The Nature Of The Future Agriculture Science And Capitalism In The Antebellum North - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative far - ranging and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth - century farms in the northern US. The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets capitalism and urban influences. The Nature of the Future dispels this mist focusing on a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality antebellum New York State to examine the largest most diverse and most active scientific community in nineteenth - century America. Emily Pawley shows how improving farmers practiced a science where conflicting visions of the future landscape appeared and evaporated in quick succession. Drawing from US history environmental history and the history of science and extensively mining a wealth of antebellum agricultural publications The Nature of the Future reveals how improvers transformed American landscapes and American ideas of expertise success and exploitation from the ground up.
Title: The Nature Of The Future Agriculture Science And Capitalism In The Antebellum North
Author(s): Pawley Emily
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226820026
Pages: 312 Pages, 16 Halftones
Publication Date: 6/7/2022
Category: Botany & Plant Sciences