Notes from the Ground

Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside

By: Benjamin R. Cohen

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Paperback | 6 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.

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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"Among its many persuasive arguments, "Notes from the Ground "establishes that's America agricultural improvers were not empty vessels yearning for scientific advice from European chemists. Rather, their georgic framework combined with practical experiences meant that America had established the organizations, rhetoric, and forms of communication that became forums of 'scientizing the land' (p.145)."

--Mark Finlay, "Technology and Culture"

"" --Mark Finlay "Technology and Culture "
""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

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