William I. Meyers and the Modernization of the American Agriculture

Douglas Slaybaugh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

283 Seiten

2002
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-55753-279-4 (ISBN)

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Provides the first book-length study of one of the leaders of the twentieth-century effort to transform farming from a way of life into a science and a business. This biography of Myers offers an opportunity to deal with a central theme of agricultural history - the triumph of modernization over agrarianism. Author Douglas Slaybaugh deftly uses that theme to define the meaning of life.

William I. Myers and the Modernization of American Agriculture is the first book-length study of one of the leaders of the twentieth-century effort to transform farming from a way of life into a science and a business. This biography of Myers offers an opportunity to deal with a central theme of agricultural history - the triumph of modernization over agrarianism. Author Douglas Slaybaugh deftly uses that theme to define the meaning of life.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2002
Verlagsort	West Lafayette
Sprache	englisch
Maße	241 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-55753-279-6 / 1557532796
ISBN-13	978-1-55753-279-4 / 9781557532794
Zustand	Neuware