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American georgics : writings on farming, culture, and the land / edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue ; foreword by Wes Jackson.

Contributor(s): Series: Yale agrarian studiesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.Description: xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300137095 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Contained works:
  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
  • Madison, James, 1751-1836
  • Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
  • Buel, Jesse, 1778-1839
  • Marsh, George P. 1801-1882
  • Berry, Wendell, 1934-
  • Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630.973 22
LOC classification:
  • S441 .A482 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Shaping the agrarian republic, 1780-1825 -- A nation of farmers: the promise and peril of American agriculture, 1825-1860 -- The machine in the garden: the rise of American romanticism -- Agriculture in an industrializing nation, 1860-1910 -- Agrarians in an industrial nation, 1900-1945 -- Southern agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- Back to the land again, 1940-present.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-389) and index.

Shaping the agrarian republic, 1780-1825 -- A nation of farmers: the promise and peril of American agriculture, 1825-1860 -- The machine in the garden: the rise of American romanticism -- Agriculture in an industrializing nation, 1860-1910 -- Agrarians in an industrial nation, 1900-1945 -- Southern agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- Back to the land again, 1940-present.

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