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Book Arthur Young s Travels in France

Download or read book Arthur Young s Travels in France written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tour in Ireland

Download or read book A Tour in Ireland written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Larding the Lean Earth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Stoll
  • Publisher : Hill and Wang
  • Release : 2003-07-03
  • ISBN : 1466805625
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Larding the Lean Earth written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll's passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers," who believed in practices that sustained and bettered the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants," who thought it was wiser and more "American" to move westward as the soil gave out. Stoll examines the dozens of journals, from New York to Virginia, that gave voice to the improvers' cause. He also focuses especially on two groups of farmers, in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He analyzes the similarities and differences in their farming habits in order to illustrate larger regional concerns about the "new husbandry" in free and slave states. Farming has always been the human activity that most disrupts nature, for good or ill. The decisions these early Americans made about how to farm not only expressed their political and social faith, but also influenced American attitudes about the environment for decades to come. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.

Book The Writings of Arthur Young

Download or read book The Writings of Arthur Young written by George Douglas Amery and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Agricultural Revolution

Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution written by Eric Kerridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth and nineteenth.

Book Washington at the Plow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce A. Ragsdale
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-12
  • ISBN : 0674246381
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Washington at the Plow written by Bruce A. Ragsdale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.

Book English Farming  Past and Present

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  • Author : Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics
  • Release : 2018-10-08
  • ISBN : 9780341837657
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book English Farming Past and Present written by Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Agricultural Revolution in England

Download or read book Agricultural Revolution in England written by Mark Overton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. It combines new evidence with recent findings from the specialist literature, to argue that the agricultural revolution took place in the century after 1750. Taking a broad view of agrarian change, the author begins with a description of sixteenth-century farming and an analysis of its regional structure. He then argues that the agricultural revolution consisted of two related transformations. The first was a transformation in output and productivity brought about by a complex set of changes in farming practice. The second was a transformation of the agrarian economy and society, including a series of related developments in marketing, landholding, field systems, property rights, enclosure and social relations. Written specifically for students, this book will be invaluable to anyone studying English economic and social history, or the history of agriculture.

Book Mothers and Others

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-15
  • ISBN : 0674659953
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Mothers and Others written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution. Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not. From its opening vision of “apes on a plane”; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable. But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children—and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.

Book The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk

Download or read book The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk written by Naomi Riches and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book 1760 1814

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  • Author : Charles Knight
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1814
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book 1760 1814 written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pottery Gardener

Download or read book The Pottery Gardener written by Arthur Parkinson and published by History Press. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning gardening book full of inspiration, tips and advice

Book A Six Weeks Tour  Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales

Download or read book A Six Weeks Tour Through the Southern Counties of England and Wales written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Adventure in Applied Science

Download or read book An Adventure in Applied Science written by Robert Flint Chandler and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire

Download or read book General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camelot s Destiny

Download or read book Camelot s Destiny written by Cynthia Breeding and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Britain in the 5th century, a time of pagan magic and Christian piety, this enchanting debut novel brings to life the legend of Camelot, and with it, bold passions and forbidden love. Original.

Book Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts

Download or read book Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts written by Arthur Young and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: