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Nature's Management

Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859

AvEdmund Ruffin,Jack Temple Kirby

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

379 kr

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History remembers Edmund Ruffin, the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861, as one of the South's most aggressive "fire-eaters." This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from Ruffin's writings, Jack Temple Kirby presents an innovative, progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist. Arranged in sections discussing southern agricultural history, Ruffin's observations of nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil rejuvenation, Nature’s Management shows that Ruffin was a thinker far ahead of his time, recognizing our need to improve agriculture and to protect nature.Known as the "father of soil science" in the United States, Edmund Ruffin discovered and solved the problem of soil acidity while still in his twenties and published several papers on the subject. As the publication of his writing increased, Ruffin left his own farming business to pursue his studies. This volume contains a collection of Ruffin's essays on a variety of interrelated subjects. From the promotion of fencing and methods of malaria prevention to advocacy of a public works program and the recycling of waste, Ruffin's ideas paved the way for the early conservation movement associated with Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and others. Nature's Management presents Ruffin's activism and innovative genius at its best, replacing the image of a southern firebrand with that of an outspoken reformer deserving of recognition.

Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina

The Private Diary of Edmund Ruffin, 1843

AvEdmund Ruffin,William M. Mathew

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

534 kr

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The centerpiece of this generously annotated book is the diary kept by the celebrated agricultural reformer Edmund Ruffin during the eight months in 1843 when, at the request of Governor James Henry Hammond, he conducted an economic survey of South Carolina, traveling to every corner of the state to examine the different farming methods in use and the resources available for their improvement. Ruffin’s succinct and pointed narrative, driven by a passionate interest in the perpetuation of slavery, recaptures for the modern reader the physical and social environment of the Palmetto State two decades before the outbreak of the Civil War in the Charleston harbor.

Edmund Ruffin - Böcker

Nature's Management

Agriculture, Geology, and Society in Antebellum South Carolina

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands

Anticipations of the Future, to Serve As Lessons for the Present Time

Anticipations of the Future, to Serve As Lessons for the Present Time

Political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare

Political Economy of Slavery; or, The Institution Considered in Regard to its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare

African Colonization Unveiled

African Colonization Unveiled

Political [!] Economy of Slavery; Volume 1

Farmers' Register, a Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of the Practice and Support of the Interests of Agriculture

Essays And Notes On Agriculture; Volume 2

Political [!] Economy of Slavery; Volume 1

Essays And Notes On Agriculture; Volume 2

Farmers' Register, a Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of the Practice and Support of the Interests of Agriculture

Farmers' Register

Farmers' Register

Farmers' Register

Farmers' Register

Political [!] Economy of Slavery

Political [!] Economy of Slavery

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands.

Political Economy of Slavery, Or, the Institution Considered in Regard to Its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare.

Report of the Commencement and Progress of the Agricultural Survey of South Carolina, for 1843.

Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time

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Anticipations of the Future to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time: In the Form of Extracts of Letters from an English Resident in the United States