Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America by Stoll, Steven

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809064304)

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Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America by Stoll, Steven

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

$20.00
Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America by Stoll, Steven

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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A Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation

Fifty years after the Revolution, American farmers faced a crisis: the failing soils of the Atlantic states threatened the agricultural prosperity upon which the republic was founded. Larding the Lean Earth explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between improvers, intent on sustaining the soil of existing farms, and emigrants, who thought it wiser and more American to move westward as the soil gave out. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.

Author: Steven Stoll
ISBN-10: 0809064308
ISBN-13: 9780809064304
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2003
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.77d
By Steven Stoll
By Steven Stoll
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Steven Stoll, an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Yale University, is the author of The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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