People Of The Plow

Author : James McCann
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0299146103

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For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.

Author : James C. McCann
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0299146146

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For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.

Author : Bruce A. Ragsdale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246386

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Washington at the Plow by Bruce A. Ragsdale Pdf

A fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery. George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture, which he saw as the means by which the American people would attain the Òrespectability & importance which we ought to hold in the world.Ó Washington at the Plow depicts the Òfirst farmer of AmericaÓ as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in crop rotation. A tireless experimentalist, Washington pulled up his tobacco and switched to wheat production, leading the way for the rest of the country. He filled his library with the latest agricultural treatises and pioneered land-management techniques that he hoped would guide small farmers, strengthen agrarian society, and ensure the prosperity of the nation. Slavery was a key part of WashingtonÕs pursuits. He saw enslaved field workers and artisans as means of agricultural development and tried repeatedly to adapt slave labor to new kinds of farming. To this end, he devised an original and exacting system of slave supervision. But Washington eventually found that forced labor could not achieve the productivity he desired. His inability to reconcile ideals of scientific farming and rural order with race-based slavery led him to reconsider the traditional foundations of the Virginia plantation. As Bruce Ragsdale shows, it was the inefficacy of chattel slavery, as much as moral revulsion at the practice, that informed WashingtonÕs famous decision to free his slaves after his death.

Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525541356

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Author : Rudi Künzel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317079651

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The Plow, the Pen and the Sword by Rudi Künzel Pdf

This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social groups looked at themselves as a group, and how they looked at the other groups. Image and self-image could differ radically. The results of this research are specified and tested in four case studies on the interaction between group cultures, focusing respectively on the influence of oral and written traditions on a literary work, rituals as a means of conflict management in weakly centralized societies, stories as an expression of an urban group mentality, and beliefs on death and the afterlife.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : WISC:89004292751

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The People's Condensed Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Solon Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B3239145

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The Plow by Solon Robinson Pdf

Author : Faith S. Holsaert,Martha Prescod Norman Noonan,Judy Richardson,Betty Garman Robinson,Jean Smith Young,Dorothy M. Zellner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252098871

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Hands on the Freedom Plow by Faith S. Holsaert,Martha Prescod Norman Noonan,Judy Richardson,Betty Garman Robinson,Jean Smith Young,Dorothy M. Zellner Pdf

In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies gathered here present a sweeping personal history of SNCC: early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and freedom rides; the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the movements in Alabama and Maryland; and Black Power and antiwar activism. Since the women spent time in the Deep South, many also describe risking their lives through beatings and arrests and witnessing unspeakable violence. These intense stories depict women, many very young, dealing with extreme fear and finding the remarkable strength to survive. The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement, its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large. Each story reveals how the struggle for social change was formed, supported, and maintained by the women who kept their "hands on the freedom plow." As the editors write in the introduction, "Though the voices are different, they all tell the same story--of women bursting out of constraints, leaving school, leaving their hometowns, meeting new people, talking into the night, laughing, going to jail, being afraid, teaching in Freedom Schools, working in the field, dancing at the Elks Hall, working the WATS line to relay horror story after horror story, telling the press, telling the story, telling the word. And making a difference in this world."

Author : Terry Collins
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781479571383

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John Deere's Powerful Idea by Terry Collins Pdf

"Discusses the invention of the John Deere plow and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--

Author : Edward H. Faulkner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780806148748

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Plowman's Folly by Edward H. Faulkner Pdf

Mr. Faulkner’s masterpiece is recognized as the most important challenge to agricultural orthodoxy that has been advanced in this century. Its new philosophy of the soil, based on proven principles and completely opposed to age-old concepts, has had a strong impact upon theories of cultivation around the world. It was on July 5, 1943, when Plowman’s Folly was first issued, that the author startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, “The fact is that no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.” With the key sentence, he opened a new era.For generations, our reasoning about the management of the soil has rested upon the use of the moldboard plow. Mr. Faulkner proved rather conclusively that soil impoverishment, erosion, decreasing crop yields, and many of the adverse effects following droughts or periods of excessive rainfall could be traced directly to the practice of plowing natural fertilizers deep into the soil. Through his own test-plot and field-scale experiments, in which he prepared the soil with a disk harrow, in emulation of nature’s way on the forest floor and in the natural meadow, by incorporating green manures into its surface, he transformed ordinary, even inferior, soils into extremely productive, high-yield croplands.Time magazine called this concept “one of the most revolutionary ideas in agriculture history.” The volume is being made available again not only because farmers, ranchers, gardeners, and agriculturists demanded it, but also because it details the kind of “revolution” which will aid those searching for the fruits of the earth in the emerging nations.

Author : Jim Fraser,Theresa Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136646850

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Freedom's Plow by Jim Fraser,Theresa Perry Pdf

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802191816

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Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet Pdf

Speed-the-Plow is an exhilaratingly sharp, comical, disturbing play about the power of money and sex in Hollywood, and how they corrupt two movie producers. Speed-the-Plow opened at Lincoln Center to sold-out seats, rave reviews and much fanfare in March 1988—staring Madonna, Joe Mantegna, and Ron Silver—and later moved to and had a long-standing run on Broadway.

Author : Jamie Freedman,Chuck Freedman
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162086259X

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Welcome to Plow Town by Jamie Freedman,Chuck Freedman Pdf

Abby and her snowplow family are able to hibernate in an apartment beneath the highway during most of the year, but the arrival of winter prompts them into action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : CUB:U183029135319

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Fire Management Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015073284112

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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture by Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Report for 1898 has Appendix: Condensed index of reports of Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1866-1898.