Sowing Modernity : : America's First Agricultural Revolution /

Sowing Modernity : : America's First Agricultural Revolution / / Peter D. McClelland.

Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial question was first directed persistently, pervasiv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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McClelland, Peter D.,
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McClelland, Peter D.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 270 halftones, 3 graphs, 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Problem
  • 2. The Approach
  • 3. Plowing
  • 4. Sowing
  • 5. Harrowing
  • 6. Cultivating
  • 7. Reaping
  • 8. Threshing
  • 9. Winnowing and Straw Cutting
  • 10. Novus Ordo Seclorum?
  • Appendix A: Remedies for Soil Exhaustion
  • Appendix B: Breeding and Raising Livestock
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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