The Nature of the Future - Pawley, Emily
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The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US. The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of the Future dispels this mist, focusing on a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality-antebellum New York State-to examine the largest, most diverse, and most active scientific community in…mehr

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The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US. The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of the Future dispels this mist, focusing on a place and period of enormous agricultural vitality-antebellum New York State-to examine the largest, most diverse, and most active scientific community in nineteenth-century America. Emily Pawley shows how "improving" farmers practiced a science where conflicting visions of the future landscape appeared and evaporated in quick succession. Drawing from US history, environmental history, and the history of science, and extensively mining a wealth of antebellum agricultural publications, The Nature of the Future reveals how improvers transformed American landscapes and American ideas of expertise, success, and exploitation from the ground up.
Autorenporträt
Emily Pawley (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science, 2009) is the Walter E. Beach '56 Chair in Sustainability Studies and associate professor of history at Dickinson College. Her interests lie in environmental history, landscape, the history of food and food production, and the history of science. She is the author of The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North (Chicago, 2020). Her articles have featured in journals including Journal of the Early Republic, Science as Culture, and Osiris.