Author: Elkanah WatsonPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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History of the Rise, Progress, and Existing Condition of the Western Canals in the State of New-York
Author: Elkanah WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Number IV
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774274
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
History of Transportation in the United States Before 1860
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Bibliography of the History of Agriculture in the United States
Author: Everett Eugene EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations: Eighteenth century business corporations in the United States
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations
Author: Joseph Stancliffe DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Sowing Modernity
Author: Peter D. McClellandPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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 question was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way? McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular focus on the change in implements used to produce small grains. With wit and verve and an abundance of detail, he demonstrates that the first great surge in inventive activity in agronomy in the United States took place following the War of 1812, much of it in a fifteen-year period ending in 1830. Once questioning the status quo became the norm for producers on and off the farm, according to McClelland, the march to modernization was virtually assured. With the aid of more than 270 illustrations, many of them taken from contemporary sources, McClelland describes this stunning transformation in a manner rarely found in the agricultural literature. How primitive farming implements worked, what their defects were, and how they were initially redesigned are explained in a manner intelligible to the novice and yet offering analysis and information of special interest to the expert.
Author: Elkanah WATSON
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