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Title	American georgics : writings on farming, culture, and the land / edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue ; [foreword by Wes Jackson].
Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	630.9 A	IN LIBRARY

Description	xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Yale agrarian studies series
	Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-389) and index.
Contents	Shaping the agrarian republic, 1780-1825 -- A nation of farmers: the promise and peril of American agriculture, 1825-1860 -- The machine in the garden: the rise of American romanticism -- Agriculture in an industrializing nation, 1860-1910 -- Agrarians in an industrial nation, 1900-1945 -- Southern agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- Back to the land again, 1940-present -- Conclusion: American agrarianism in the twenty-first century.
Subject	Agriculture -- United States -- History.
Added Author	Hagenstein, Edwin C., editor.
	Gregg, Sara M., editor.
	Donahue, Brian, 1955- editor.
	Jackson, Wes, author of foreword.
Added Title	Writings on farming, culture, and the land
ISBN	9780300137095 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0300137095 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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