The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin
Author: Benjamin Horace Hibbard
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 166
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Wisconsin
Author: Robert Carrington Nesbit
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 9780299108045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices. First paperback edition.
The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin
Author: Benjamin Horace Hibbard
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781333563790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The History of Agriculture in Dane County, Wisconsin: A Thesis The purpose in choosing this subject for a thesis was to make a beginning in an interesting and unexploited field of economic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Heartland
Author: James H. Madison
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253314239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains chapters on Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, South Dakota, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa.
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Wisconsin (1883-2021)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 1948436523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 188 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
Restoration Agriculture
Author: Mark Shepard
Publisher: Acres U.S.A., Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601730350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround the globe most people get their calories from "annual" agriculture - plants that grow fast for one season, produce lots of seeds, then die. Every single human society that has relied on annual crops for staple foods has collapsed. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel and many other needs - in your own backyard, farm or ranch. This book, based on real-world practices, presents an alternative to the agriculture system of eradication and offers exciting hope for our future.
Vintage Wisconsin Gardens
Author: Lee Somerville
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-11-06
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0870206583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Wisconsin’s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride. In Vintage Wisconsin Gardens, Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region’s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showcasing the “vernacular” gardens created by landscaping enthusiasts for their own use and pleasure. The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, established during the mid-nineteenth century, was the primary source of advice for home gardeners. Through carefully selected excerpts from WSHS articles, Somerville shares the excitement of these gardeners as they traded cultivation and design knowledge and explored the possibilities of their avocation. Women were frequent presenters at the WSHS annual meetings, and their voices resonate. Their writings, and those of their male colleagues, are a remarkable legacy we can draw on today—learning how Wisconsinites past created and enjoyed their gardens helps us appreciate our own. Filled with period and contemporary images, recommended plant lists, and garden layouts, Vintage Wisconsin Gardens will interest those curious about the history of the state’s cultural landscape and inspire readers to restore or reconstruct period gardens.
The Agricultural Dilemma
Author: Glenn Davis Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-06-30
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 100060974X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population. This book is about the three fundamental forms of agriculture: Malthusian (expansion), industrialization (external-input-dependent), and intensification (labor-based). The best way to understand the three agricultures, and how we tend to get it wrong, is to consider what drives their growth. The book provides a thoughtful, critical analysis that upends entrenched misconceptions such as that we are running out of land for food production and that our only hope is the development of new agricultural technologies. The book contains engaging and enlightening vignettes and short histories, with case studies drawn from across the globe to bring to life this important debate and dilemma. The book concludes by arguing there is a viable alternative to industrial agriculture which will allow us to meet the world's needs and it ponders why such alternatives have been downplayed, obscured, or hidden from view. This important book is essential reading for all studying and researching food production and agriculture, and more broadly for all interested in ensuring we are able to feed our growing population.
The Social History of Agriculture
Author: Christopher Isett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1442209682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Christopher Isett and Stephen Millerargue that people, rather than markets, have been the primary agents of agricultural change. Exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time and analyzing their activities in the wider contexts of markets, states, wars, the environment, population increase, and similar factors, the authors emphasize how larger social and political forces inform decisions and lead to different technological outcomes. Both farmers and elites responded in ways that impeded economic development. Farmers, when able to trade with towns, used the revenue to gain more land and security. Elites used commercial opportunities to accumulate military power and slaves. The book explores these tendencies through rich case studies of ancient China; precolonial South America; early-modern France, England, and Japan; New World slavery; colonial Taiwan; socialist Cuba; and many other periods and places. Readers will understand how the promises and problems of contemporary agriculture are not simply technologically derived but are the outcomes of decisions and choices people have made and continue to make.
