Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America - Paperback
by Steven Stoll
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780809064304ISBN-10:809064308UPC:9780809064304Book Category:History, Technology & Engineering, NatureBook Subcategory:United States, Agriculture, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:19th Century, AgronomySize:8.52 x 5.51 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.88Product ID:SC6PKYN415
A Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation
Fifty years after the Revolution, American farmers faced a crisis: the failing soils of the Atlantic states threatened the agricultural prosperity upon which the republic was founded. Larding the Lean Earth explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," intent on sustaining the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants," who thought it wiser and more "American" to move westward as the soil gave out. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780809064304ISBN-10:809064308UPC:9780809064304Book Category:History, Technology & Engineering, NatureBook Subcategory:United States, Agriculture, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionBook Topic:19th Century, AgronomySize:8.52 x 5.51 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.88Product ID:SC6PKYN415
Steven Stoll, an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Yale University, is the author of The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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