The Nature Of The Future: Agriculture, Science, And Capitalism In The Antebellum North - 9780226820026

In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--

• | Author: Emily Pawley
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 309 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0226820025
• | ISBN-13: 9780226820026