Tag agricultural society

October 2, 2011
in American History, Environmental Studies, Science

Notes from a Native New Yorker: Studying The Ground, and Ourselves

October 2, 2011
in American History, Environmental Studies, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks Michelle Stein— Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil & Society in the American Countryside, by Benjamin R. Cohen is primarily the story of the merger of agriculture and science in early America, and all the attendant debates and developments in agricultural life. But in the spirit of

August 11, 2011
in American History, Environmental Studies, Literature, Science

Contradictions in Love of Land: American Georgics

August 11, 2011
in American History, Environmental Studies, Literature, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks No matter where you are in the U.S. this summer, you have probably felt the effects of the record-setting heat. While most of us are just sweating a little more than usual, our country’s agricultural community faces a depressing situation. The heat arrived with an extreme drought throughout