Louis A. Ferleger

Planting the Seeds of Research (eBook, PDF)

How America's Ultimate Investment Transformed Agriculture

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Produktbeschreibung

'Planting the Seeds of Research' explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785272639
• Artikelnr.: 63604303

Autorenporträt

Louis A. Ferleger is professor of history at Boston University, USA, and former chair of its History Department. He has published, edited or co-authored seven books. The former executive director of the Historical Society, Ferleger was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Grant; an Earhart Foundation Fellowship; a research grant from the Twentieth Century Fund; and a Charles Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction: The Anatomy of the Ultimate Investment; 1. Uplifting
American Agriculture: Experiment Stations Scientists and the Office of
Experiment Stations in the Early Years after the Hatch Act; 2. Higher
Education for an Innovative Economy: Land-Grant Colleges and the Managerial
Revolution in America; 3. Arming America Agriculture for the Twentieth
Century: How the USDA's Top Managers Promoted Agricultural Development; 4.
Transatlantic Travails: German Experiment Stations and the Transformation
of American Agriculture; 5. European Agricultural Development and
Institutional Change: How German Experiment Stations Influenced American
Stations, 1870-1920; 6. The Managerial Revolution and the Developmental
State: The Case of US Agriculture; Index.