American Georgics : Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

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ISBN: 9780300188042 | 0300188048
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Copyright: 9/25/2012

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A rich and evocative collection spanning more than two centuries of agrarian writing, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the modern organic movement Book jacket.

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780-1825	p. 9
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782)	p. 15
Alexander Hamilton, from Report on the Subject of Manufactures (1791)	p. 27
The National Gazette, from "An Old Prophecy" (1792); and a letter to the editor (1792)	p. 33
John Taylor of Caroline, from Arator (1813)	p. 38
James Madison, from "An Address Delivered before the Albemarle, Va., Agricultural Society" (1818)	p. 44
William Cobbett, from Journal of a Year's Residence in America (1819)	p. 49
A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825-1860	p. 57
Jesse Buel, from The Farmer's Companion (1839)	p. 64
George Perkins Marsh, from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County" (1847)	p. 72
Wilson Flagg, "Agricultural Progress" (1859)	p. 81
George Henry Evans and the Working Men's Movement, "A Memorial to Congress" (1844); and "Vote Yourself a Farm" (1846)	p. 86
George Washington Julian, "Speech before Congress on the Homestead Bill" (1851)	p. 89
Edmund Ruffin, from "An Address on the Opposite Results of Exhausting and Fertilizing Systems of Agriculture" (1852)	p. 96
The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism	p. 105
Albert Brisbane, "False Association, Established by the Capitalists, Contrasted with True Association" (1846)	p. 111
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842)	p. 118
Louisa May Alcott, from "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873)	p. 123
Andrew Jackson Downing, "Cockneyism in the Country" (1849)	p. 129
Susan Fenimore Cooper, from Rural Hours (1850)	p. 133
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854)	p. 140
Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860-1910	p. 149
Thomas Starr King, from "Address before the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society" (1862)	p. 155
Orson Hyde, from "Instructions" (1867)	p. 161
Hamlin Garland, from A Son of the Middle Border (1917)	p. 165
Willa Cather, from My Antonia (1918)	p. 171
L. L. Polk, from "Address before the Inter-States Convention of Farmers" (1887)	p. 179
Ignatius Donnelly, for the People's Party, from the Omaha Platform of the People's Party (1892)	p. 187
Luna Kellie, from "Stand Up for Nebraska" (1894)	p. 192
Agrarians in an Industrial Nation, 1900-1945	p. 199
Liberty Hyde Bailey Jr., from The Holy Earth (1915)	p. 206
David Grayson, from Adventures in Contentment (1907)	p. 215
Edwin G. Nourse, from "The Place of Agriculture in Modern Industrial Society" (1919)	p. 222
Henry A. Wallace, from "Putting Our Lands in Order" (1934)	p. 226
Ralph Borsodi, from Agriculture in Modern Life (1939)	p. 230
John C. Rawe and Luigi G. Ligutti, from Rural Roads to Security: America's Third Struggle for Freedom (1940)	p. 236
Louis Bromfield, from Pleasant Valley (1945)	p. 243
Southern Agrarianism, 1925-1940	p. 251
Twelve Southerners, from I'll Take My Stand (1930)	p. 257
Andrew Nelson Lytle, from "The Hind Tit" (1930)	p. 263
John Crowe Ransom, from "The Aesthetic of Regionalism" (1934)	p. 272
Allen Tate, from "Notes on Liberty and Property" (1936)	p. 277
H. L. Mencken, from "The South Astir" (1935)	p. 283
Ned Cobb (Nate Shaw), from All God's Dangers (1974)	p. 287
Back to the Land Again, 1940-Present	p. 299
Aldo Leopold, from "The Farmer as a Conservationist" (1939)	p. 305
Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing, from Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World (1954)	p. 311
Earl L. Butz, from "Agribusiness in the Machine Age" (1960)	p. 322
Victor Davis Hanson, from The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer (2000)	p. 326
Hayden Carruth, "Marshall Washer" (1978)	p. 340
Wes Jackson, from "Becoming Native to Our Places" (1994)	p. 346
Wendell Berry, "Seven Amish Farms" (1981)	p. 358
Conclusion: American Agrarianism in the Twenty-first Century	p. 369
Bibliography	p. 377
Selection Credits	p. 391
Index	p. 393
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