Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

Acknowledged authors Stoll, Steven wrote Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America comprising 287 pages back in 2002. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0809064308 and 9780809064304. Since then Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 0.30 or rent at the marketplace.

A Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation

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. Larding the Lean Earth 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. Larding the Lean Earth is a signal work of environmental history and an original contribution to the study of antebellum America.