The Culture of the Wildnerness

"In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the brood context of European and classical Roman agricultural history."--Book cover.

First sentence: As Robert Pogue Harrison notes, forests have a long Western history as originary places: "From the beginning [that is, during the time of the Greeks and Romans] they appeared to our ancestors as archaic, as antecedent to the human world.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Editions

1

Pages

220

ISBN

9780807845851

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