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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
American Agriculturist
Author: Harvest of Dissent
Author: Thomas SummerhillPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029769
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance to the emergence of capitalist market agriculture. Taking the long view, Harvest of Dissent brings together the events of nearly a century of agrarian radicalism in central New York, giving Summerhill the ability to understand everything from the Anti-Rent movement to the Grange movement as part of a whole.Based on exceptionally thorough primary research, Summerhill convincingly demonstrates how protracted and contingent the process of drawing farmers into capitalist markets actually was, and the ways farmers selectively and creatively resisted it. Rather than characterizing farmer political insurgencies as episodic responses to discrete crises (as they are often portrayed), Harvest of Dissent argues that agrarianism played a constant role in the major political, economic, and social transformations that marked the emergence of modern America.Thomas Summerhill is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. He coedited Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context.
The Nature of the Future
Author: Emily PawleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820025
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--
Agriculture in America, 1622-1860
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This catalogue is an alphabetical listing of those printed works issued before 1861 which relate to agriculture in the continental United States and whcih are held in any of these institutions.
The Cultivator, a Monthly Journal Devoted to Agriculture, horitcluture, Floriculture, and to Domestic and Rural Economy New Series-Vol. III
Author: The CultivatorThe Cultivator
Author: The Country Gentleman
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
A journal for the farm, the garden, and the fireside, devoted to improvement in agriculture, horticulture, and rural taste; to elevation in mental, moral, and social character, and the spread of useful knowledge and current news.
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
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Author: Leonard Bacon