03309nam 2200697Ia 450 991078064620332120221108040153.01-282-35221-097866123522180-300-15492-510.12987/9780300154924(CKB)2430000000010755(StDuBDS)AH23050046(SSID)ssj0000341009(PQKBManifestationID)11257574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341009(PQKBWorkID)10389317(PQKB)11300488(DE-B1597)484810(OCoLC)587497168(DE-B1597)9780300154924(Au-PeEL)EBL3420465(CaPaEBR)ebr10343512(CaONFJC)MIL235221(OCoLC)923593121(MiAaPQ)EBC3420465(EXLCZ)99243000000001075520090715d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrNotes from the ground[electronic resource] science, soil, and society in the American countryside /Benjamin R. CohenNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (288 p.) Yale agrarian studies seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-13923-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Distinguishing the Georgic -- 2. ''The Science of Agriculture and Book Farming'' -- 3. Knowing Nature, Dabbling with Davy -- 4. The Agricultural Society, the Planter, and the Slave -- 5. The Geological Survey, the Professor, and His Assistants -- 6. Agriculture, Ethics, and the Future of Georgic Science -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexNotes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian Americans-yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike-accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land. By detailing the changing perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin Cohen shows that the credibility of new soil practices grew not from the arrival of professional chemists, but out of an existing ideology of work, knowledge, and citizenship.Yale agrarian studies.Soil scienceUnited StatesHistory19th centurySoilsEnvironmental aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAgricultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAgricultureSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUSAswdSoil scienceHistorySoilsEnvironmental aspectsHistoryAgricultureHistoryAgricultureSocial aspectsHistory631.497309034Cohen Benjamin R237093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780646203321Notes from the ground3733322UNINA