TY - BOOK ID - 80876425 TI - Notes from the ground : science, soil, and society in the American countryside PY - 2009 SN - 9780300154924 0300154925 1282352210 9781282352216 9780300177701 0300177704 9780300139235 0300139233 9786612352218 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Soil science KW - Soils KW - Agriculture KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Earth (Soils) KW - Mold, Vegetable KW - Mould, Vegetable KW - Soil KW - Vegetable mold KW - Agricultural resources KW - Plant growing media KW - Regolith KW - Land capability for agriculture KW - Pedology (Soil science) KW - Earth sciences KW - History KW - Environmental aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Soil science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.. KW - Soils -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.. KW - Agriculture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.. KW - Agriculture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. KW - USA. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80876425 AB - 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. ER -