Sowing Modernity

by Peter D. McClelland

Contrary to those who regard the economic transformation of the West as a gradual process spanning centuries, Peter D. McClelland claims the initial transformation of American agriculture was an unmistakable revolution. He asks when a single crucial question was first directed persistently, pervasively, and systematically to farming practices: Is there a better way? McClelland surveys practices from crop rotation to livestock breeding, with a particular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801433266
• ISBN13: 9780801433269
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher