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Author | : Pamela Hill Nettleton |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404801847 |
Give readers a fresh look into the fascinating lives of six famous Americans. This Series is aligned with the Standard, "The History of the United States' Democratic Principles and Values, and the Peoples from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage," as required by the National Council for History.
Author | : Alan M. Fusonie |
Publisher | : George Washington Bookshelf |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780931917288 |
The life and leadership of George Washington on the occasion of the bicentennial of his death.
Author | : Peggy Thomas |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781590784600 |
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book American Farm Bureau Foundation for Education Recommended Book Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, did you know that George Washington was also a farmer? Here's a look at America's first President as he's rarely seen. George Washington was the first leader of our country—but he was also an inventor, scientist, and the most forward-thinking farmer of his time. As he worked to make the new country independent, he also struggled to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout this nonfiction picture book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery. Both the author and illustrator worked closely with the staff of Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens to render an accurate portrait of Farmer George at work. Nebraska Farm Bureau Children’s Agriculture Book of the Year Ohio Farm Bureau’s Children’s Book Award A Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom Book of the Year Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading List
Author | : Bruce A. Ragsdale |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674246381 |
A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.
Author | : Paul Leland Haworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) |
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Author | : George Washington |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Author | : Paul Leland Haworth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752360356 |
Reproduction of the original: George Washington: Farmer by Paul Leland Haworth
Author | : Paul Leland Haworth |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781330218990 |
Excerpt from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities "The aim of the farmers in this country (if they can be called farmers) is, not to make the most they can from the land, which is or has been cheap, but the most of the labour, which Is dear; the consequence of which has been, much ground has been scratched over and none cultivated or improved as it ought to have been: whereas a farmer in England, where land is dear, and labour cheap, finds it his interest to improve and cultivate highly, that he may reap large crops from a small quantity of ground." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Peggy Thomas |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2014-09-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1629792632 |
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book American Farm Bureau Foundation for Education Recommended Book Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, did you know that George Washington was also a farmer? Here's a look at America's first President as he's rarely seen. George Washington was the first leader of our country—but he was also an inventor, scientist, and the most forward-thinking farmer of his time. As he worked to make the new country independent, he also struggled to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout this nonfiction picture book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery. Both the author and illustrator worked closely with the staff of Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens to render an accurate portrait of Farmer George at work. Nebraska Farm Bureau Children’s Agriculture Book of the Year Ohio Farm Bureau’s Children’s Book Award A Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom Book of the Year Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading List
Author | : Paul Leland Haworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-02-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781295755943 |
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