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Author Stoll, Steven.

Title Larding the lean Earth : soil and society in nineteenth-century America / Steven Stoll.

Publication Info. New York : Hill and Wang, 2002.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  631.4 ST68    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  631.45 ST0LL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  631.45 ST68    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  631.45 ST    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Prologue : Litchfield -- Forming the furrow slice -- Ethic of permanence -- Laying waste -- Panic -- Dunghill doctrines -- Island states -- Another world -- Hints to emigrants -- Fleece and bounties -- Oldfield -- Our most fatal loss -- Mouth full of ashes -- Conclusion -- Toward conservation -- Robinson's prairie -- Striving after harmony -- Epilogue : Fredericksburg.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-274).
Subject Soil conservation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Soil fertility -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Land settlement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0809064316 hardcover
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