Larding the Lean Earth - by Steven Stoll (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation</b> <p/>Fifty years after the Revolution, American farmers faced a crisis: the failing soils of the Atlantic states threatened the agricultural prosperity upon which the republic was founded. <i>Larding the Lean Earth</i> explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between improvers, intent on sustaining the soil of existing farms, and emigrants, who thought it wiser and more American to move westward as the soil gave out. <i>Larding the Lean Earth</i> is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[An] eye-opening and rousing chronicle of American agriculture and its industrialization." --<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"An engaging examination of the early proponents of restorative husbandry." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"Evocative and provocative, written with verve and passion and with new insights on every page, this is a book that every nineteenth-century historian will want to read." --<i>Daniel Feller, University of New Mexico</i> <p/>"[A] valuable act of reclamation." --<i>Bill Kauffman, The Wall Street Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Steven Stoll</b>, an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Yale University, is the author of <i>The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside</i> in California. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.</p>
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