| Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America Contributor(s): Stoll, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809064308 ISBN-13: 9780809064304 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Agronomy - Soil Science - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
| Dewey: 631.450 |
| LCCN: 2002023279 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.51" W x 8.52" (0.88 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stoll, Steven: - Steven Stoll studies the ways that people think about resources, capital, and how the economy of exchange functions within the larger economy of Earth. He is an environmental historian, but his work is related to geography, social ecology, and the political theory of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Most of Stoll's writing concerns agrarian society in the United States. He is the author of U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945 and The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth. Stoll is a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine and teaches history at Fordham University. |