American georgics : writings on farming, culture, and the land /
edited by Edwin C. Hagenstein, Sara M. Gregg, and Brian Donahue ; foreword by Wes Jackson.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
- xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Yale agrarian studies series .
- Yale agrarian studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-389) and index.
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.
9780300137095 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010045042
Agriculture--History.--United States Agriculture--United States--Literature.