Nature and Reason Harmonized in the Practice of Husbandry
Author | : John Lorain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Agricultural systems |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Lorain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Agricultural systems |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Williams |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2010-05-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0226899055 |
“Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today’s policymakers take its lessons to heart.”—Brian Fagan, Los Angeles Times Published in 2002, Deforesting the Earth was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership. Deforestation—the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture—is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation’s effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, Deforesting the Earth is the preeminent history of this process and its consequences. Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period. He then focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early 1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America, and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan. Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of deforestation, with our ever-increasing human population placing a potentially unsupportable burden on the world’s forests.
Author | : Adam Wesley Dean |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146961992X |
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.
Author | : C. Wayne Smith |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1995-12-12 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780471079729 |
This book deals with the agronomy of the eight major grain, fiber and oilseed row crops produced in the United States: Corn, Wheat, Grain Sorghum, Barley, Rice, Cotton, Soybeans, and Peanuts. For each crop, Dr. Smith presents a structured discussion of: the types of cultivars, the history of the crop, its uses and processing, a detailed discussion of how to plant and grow the crop, the pests and problems involved, and the harvesting, grading and marketing practices.
Author | : Percy Wells Bidwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benjamin R. Cohen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2009-10-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0300154925 |
This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land.
Author | : Clarence H. Danhof |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674107700 |
American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.