Larding the Lean Earth
A major history of early Americans'' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country''s voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll''s passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tem...
A major history of early Americans'' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country''s voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic was founded, was threatened. Steven Stoll''s passionate and brilliantly argued book explores the tem...
