Author: Society of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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The Journal of Agriculture July 1855- March 1857
Author: Society of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Journal of Agriculture
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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The Journal of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Roads to Power
Author: Jo Guldi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674264134
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran between most towns. By 1848 the primitive roads were transformed into a network of highways connecting every village and island in the nation—and also dividing them in unforeseen ways. The highway network led to contests for control over everything from road management to market access. Peripheries like the Highlands demanded that centralized government pay for roads they could not afford, while English counties wanted to be spared the cost of underwriting roads to Scotland. The new network also transformed social relationships. Although travelers moved along the same routes, they occupied increasingly isolated spheres. The roads were the product of a new form of government, the infrastructure state, marked by the unprecedented control bureaucrats wielded over decisions relating to everyday life. Does information really work to unite strangers? Do markets unite nations and peoples in common interests? There are lessons here for all who would end poverty or design their markets around the principle of participation. Guldi draws direct connections between traditional infrastructure and the contemporary collapse of the American Rust Belt, the decline of American infrastructure, the digital divide, and net neutrality. In the modern world, infrastructure is our principal tool for forging new communities, but it cannot outlast the control of governance by visionaries.
Tercentenary Handlist of English & Welsh Newspapers, Magazines & Reviews ...
Author: Roland Austin
Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher: London : Dawsons of Pall Mall
ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books. Supplement
Author: Неизвестный автор
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875080876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875080876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860
Author: James C. Bonner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West. He also clearly shows how shortages of horses and implements, poor plowing techniques, and a lack of skill in tool mechanics spawned the cotton-slaves-mules trilogy of antebellum agriculture, which in turn led to land exhaustion and eventual emigration. By the 1850s the general southern desire for economic independence promoted diversification and such scientific farming techniques as crop rotation, contour plowing, and fertilization. Planting of pasture forage to improve livestock and hold soil was advocated and the teaching of agriculture in public schools was promoted. Contemporary descriptions of individual farms and plantations are interspersed to give a picture of day to day farming. Bonner presents a picture of the average Southern farmer of 1850 which is neither that of a landless hireling nor of the traditional planter, but of a practical man trying to make a living.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West. He also clearly shows how shortages of horses and implements, poor plowing techniques, and a lack of skill in tool mechanics spawned the cotton-slaves-mules trilogy of antebellum agriculture, which in turn led to land exhaustion and eventual emigration. By the 1850s the general southern desire for economic independence promoted diversification and such scientific farming techniques as crop rotation, contour plowing, and fertilization. Planting of pasture forage to improve livestock and hold soil was advocated and the teaching of agriculture in public schools was promoted. Contemporary descriptions of individual farms and plantations are interspersed to give a picture of day to day farming. Bonner presents a picture of the average Southern farmer of 1850 which is neither that of a landless hireling nor of the traditional planter, but of a practical man trying to make a living.