Notes from the Ground

Notes from the Ground PDF Author: Benjamin R. Cohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154925
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Book Description
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 land.