American Georgics.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780-1825 -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) -- Alexander Hamilton, from Report on the Subject of Manufactures (1791) -- The National Gazette, from "An Old Prophecy" (1792) -- and a letter to the editor (1792) -- John Taylor of Caroline, from Arator (1813) -- James Madison, from "An Address Delivered before the Albemarle, Va., Agricultural Society" (1818) -- William Cobbett, from Journal of a Year's Residence in America (1819) -- 2. A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825-1860 -- Jesse Buel, from The Farmer's Companion (1839) -- George Perkins Marsh, from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County" (1847) -- Wilson Flagg, "Agricultural Progress" (1859) -- George Henry Evans and the Working Men's Movement, "A Memorial to Congress" (1844) -- and "Vote Yourself a Farm" (1846) -- George Washington Julian, "Speech before Congress on the Homestead Bill" (1851) -- Edmund Ruffin, from "An Address on the Opposite Results of Exhausting and Fertilizing Systems of Agriculture" (1852) -- 3. The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism -- Albert Brisbane, "False Association, Established by the Capitalists, Contrasted with True Association" (1846) -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842) -- Louisa May Alcott, from "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873) -- Andrew Jackson Downing, "Cockneyism in the Country" (1849) -- Susan Fenimore Cooper, from Rural Hours (1850) -- Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854) -- 4. Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860-1910 -- Thomas Starr King, from "Address before the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society" (1862) -- Orson Hyde, from "Instructions" (1867).

Hamlin Garland, from A Son of the Middle Border (1917) -- Willa Cather, from My Ántonia (1918) -- L. L. Polk, from "Address before the Inter-States Convention of Farmers" (1887) -- Ignatius Donnelly, for the People's Party, from the Omaha Platform of the People's Party (1892) -- Luna Kellie, from "Stand Up for Nebraska" (1894) -- 5. Agrarians in an Industrial Nation, 1900-1945 -- Liberty Hyde Bailey Jr., from The Holy Earth (1915) -- David Grayson, from Adventures in Contentment (1907) -- Edwin G. Nourse, from "The Place of Agriculture in Modern Industrial Society" (1919) -- Henry A. Wallace, from "Putting Our Lands in Order" (1934) -- Ralph Borsodi, from Agriculture in Modern Life (1939) -- John C. Rawe and Luigi G. Ligutti, from Rural Roads to Security: America's Third Struggle for Freedom (1940) -- Louis Bromfield, from Pleasant Valley (1945) -- 6. Southern Agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- Twelve Southerners, from I'll Take My Stand (1930) -- Andrew Nelson Lytle, from "The Hind Tit" (1930) -- John Crowe Ransom, from "The Aesthetic of Regionalism" (1934) -- Allen Tate, from "Notes on Liberty and Property" (1936) -- H. L. Mencken, from "The South Astir" (1935) -- Ned Cobb (Nate Shaw), from All God's Dangers (1974) -- 7. Back to the Land Again, 1940-Present -- Aldo Leopold, from "The Farmer as a Conservationist" (1939) -- Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing, from Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World (1954) -- Earl L. Butz, from "Agribusiness in the Machine Age" (1960) -- Victor Davis Hanson, from The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer (2000) -- Hayden Carruth, "Marshall Washer" (1978) -- Wes Jackson, from "Becoming Native to Our Places" (1994) -- Wendell Berry, "Seven Amish Farms" (1981) -- Conclusion: American Agrarianism in the Twenty-first Century -- Bibliography -- Selection Credits -- Index -- A -- B.

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A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the modern organic movement.

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