Book ID: CBB959441882

The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North (2020)

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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. (Publisher)

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Review Mark Lause (2022) Review of "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North". Journal of American History (pp. 658-659). unapi

Review Bart Elmore (April 2021) Review of "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North". Environmental History (pp. 379-380). unapi

Review Jamie L. Pietruska (Summer 2021) Review of "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North". Business History Review (pp. 349-351). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Thomson, Ross
Fitsanakis, Joseph
Richard Dwight Porcher
Regele, Lindsay Schakenbach
Donald W. Linebaugh
Olsson, Mats
Concepts
Technological innovation
Agriculture
Industrial archaeology
Intellectual property
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Business history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
Great Britain
South Carolina (U.S.)
Southern states (U.S.)
Tennessee (U.S.)
Sweden
Institutions
William Sellers
Pennsylvania Railroad
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