A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700610669 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Back Cover "This is a pathbreaking history of an emerging 'green' agricultural philosophy, and it offers a powerful alternative to the industrial juggernaut rolling over America's farms. Clearly written, broadly conceived, and important."--Donald Worster, author of Nature's Economy"A succinct and engaging account of the epic effort to create an agricultural landscape that is more socially sound, economically just, and environmentally responsible."--Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work"An important addition to American environmental history."--Roderick Frazier Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind"A vibrant and engrossing history."--John Saltmarsh, author of Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography
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Pritchard teaches natural resoun conservation and environmental literature at Iowa State University and is the author Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature. Randal S. James A. Beeman is professor of history at Bakersfield College. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Sust
And by demonstrating how agriculture also remains central to the public interest—especially in the face of climatic crises, genetically altered crops, and questionable uses of pesticides—this book puts these issues in historical perspective and offers readers considerable food for thought.. As family farms failed during the Depression, a new kind of agriculture was championed based on the holistic approach taught by the emerging science of ecology. Assumed by many to be a recent phenomenon, that industry owes much to agricultural innovations that go back to the Dust Bowl era.This book explores the roots and branches of alternative agricultural ideas in twentieth-century America, showing how ecological thought has challenged and changed agricultural theory, practice, and policy from the 1930s to the present. Once patronized primarily by the counterculture and the health food establishment, the organic food industry today is a multi-billion-dolla