LEADER 04131nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910456976303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-09626-9 010 $a9786613096265 010 $a0-300-17184-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300171846 035 $a(CKB)2550000000032969 035 $a(EBL)3420679 035 $a(OCoLC)923595984 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466892 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11337320 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466892 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10465994 035 $a(PQKB)10156289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420679 035 $a(DE-B1597)486659 035 $a(OCoLC)1024028683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300171846 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420679 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466269 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309626 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000032969 100 $a20101026d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican georgics$b[electronic resource] $ewritings on farming, culture, and the land /$fedited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue ; foreword by Wes Jackson 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-13709-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tBrief Contents -- $tContents -- $tForeword -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780-1825 -- $t2. A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825-1860 -- $t3. The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism -- $t4. Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860-1910 -- $t5. Agrarians in an Industrial Nation, 1900-1945 -- $t6. Southern Agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- $t7. Back to the Land Again, 1940-Present -- $tConclusion: American Agrarianism in the Twenty-first Century -- $tBibliography -- $tSelection Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, writers from Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry reveal not only the great reach and durability of the American agrarian ideal, but also the ways in which society has contested and confronted its relationship to agriculture over the course of generations.Drawing inspiration from Virgil's agrarian epic poem, Georgics, this collection presents a complex historical portrait of the American character through its relationship to the land. From the first European settlers eager to cultivate new soil, to the Transcendentalist, utopian, and religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, American society has drawn upon the vision of a pure rural life for inspiration. Back-to-the-land movements have surged and retreated in the past centuries yet provided the agrarian roots for the environmental movement of the past forty years. Interpretative essays and a sprinkling of illustrations accompany excerpts from each of these periods of American agrarian thought, providing a framework for understanding the sweeping changes that have confronted the nation's landscape. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aAgricultural ecology$zUnited States 606 $aAgriculture$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAgricultural ecology 615 0$aAgriculture$xHistory. 676 $a630.973 700 $aBarnstone$b Willis, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0488524 701 $aDonahue$b Brian$f1955-$01053011 701 $aGregg$b Sara M$01053012 701 $aHagenstein$b Edwin C$01053013 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456976303321 996 $aAmerican georgics$92484639 997 $aUNINA