Steven Stoll, an associate professor of history and environmental studies at Yale University, is the author of The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
"[An] eye-opening and rousing chronicle of American agriculture and its industrialization." --Booklist "An engaging examination of the early proponents of restorative husbandry." --Kirkus Reviews "Evocative and provocative, written with verve and passion and with new insights on every page, this is a book that every nineteenth-century historian will want to read." --Daniel Feller, University of New Mexico "[A] valuable act of reclamation." --Bill Kauffman, The Wall Street Journal
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