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"Notes from the Ground, by explaining how new technologies were evaluated and accepted in practice, transforms our understanding of antebellum Southern agriculture."-David E. Nye, author of America as Second Creation (David E. Nye )
"Cohen takes readers back to the Early Republic to explore how people thought about land and production, ingeniously demonstrating how day-to-day labor in fields and barns led farmers to adopt and create their own scientific approaches. This crisp and clever book is closest in tenor and content to Steven Stoll's Larding the Lean Earth, and expands upon it in important ways."-Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Deborah Fitzgerald )
"Notes from the Ground encompasses the entire subject of science and the environment during the nineteenth century. Cohen writes with grace, clarity, and insight about the ''georgic science'' of American farmers-a philosophy that resonates in the present, meant to ''reveal rather than conceal our connections to the land.''"-Steven Stoll, author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Steven Stoll )
"Cohen takes readers back to the Early Republic to explore how people thought about land and production, ingeniously demonstrating how day-to-day labor in fields and barns led farmers to adopt and create their own scientific approaches. This crisp and clever book is closest in tenor and content to Steven Stoll's Larding the Lean Earth, and expands upon it in important ways."-Deborah Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Deborah Fitzgerald )
"Notes from the Ground encompasses the entire subject of science and the environment during the nineteenth century. Cohen writes with grace, clarity, and insight about the ''georgic science'' of American farmers-a philosophy that resonates in the present, meant to ''reveal rather than conceal our connections to the land.''"-Steven Stoll, author of Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Steven Stoll )
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Notes 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.
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