Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America AUTH-842928 Failing Forward

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Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America AUTH-842928 Failing ForwardA Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation Fifty years after the Revolution, American farmers faced a crisis: the failing soils of the Atlantic states threatened the agricultural prosperity upon which the republic was founded. Larding the Lean Earth explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between improvers, intent on sustaining the soil of existing farms, and emigrants, who thought it wiser and more American to move westward as