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People of the Plow

Author : James McCann
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299146108
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book People of the Plow written by James McCann and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Washington at the Plow

Author : Bruce A. Ragsdale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674246381
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Washington at the Plow written by Bruce A. Ragsdale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541357
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead written by Olga Tokarczuk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Plow Peddler

Author : Walter M. Buescher
Publisher : Glenbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plow Peddler written by Walter M. Buescher and published by Glenbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hands on the Freedom Plow

Author : Faith S. Holsaert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035577
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hands on the Freedom Plow written by Faith S. Holsaert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. --

Speed-the-plow

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573690815
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Speed-the-plow written by David Mamet and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.

Welcome to Plow Town

Author : Jamie Freedman
Publisher : Mascot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620862599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Plow Town written by Jamie Freedman and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women Behind the Plow

Author : Susan Balcom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692854259
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Women Behind the Plow written by Susan Balcom and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with women in North Dakota that lived on farms before the time of electricity. Stories of life as a child, types of chores, schools, marriage, raising families, fires and more than 400 photos.

Plowman's Folly

Author : Edward H. Faulkner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806148748
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Plowman's Folly written by Edward H. Faulkner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Too Wet to Plow

Author : Jeanne M. Simonelli
Publisher : New Amsterdam Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Too Wet to Plow written by Jeanne M. Simonelli and published by New Amsterdam Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Simonelli writes vividly, her prose a moving testimonial to the courage farming takes....--The Book Review

When Horses Pulled the Plow

Author : Olaf F. Larson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299282031
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book When Horses Pulled the Plow written by Olaf F. Larson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time—an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions—tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes—that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson’s account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. He weaves invaluable historical details—including descriptions of farm equipment, crops, and livestock—with wry tales about his family, neighbors, and the one-room schoolhouse he attended, revealing the texture of everyday life in the rural Midwest almost a century ago. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a wealth of details recalled from an earlier era and an illuminating read for anyone with their own memories of growing up on a farm.

John Deere's Powerful Idea

Author : Terry Collins
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479571385
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book John Deere's Powerful Idea written by Terry Collins and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the invention of the John Deere plow and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--

Horsedrawn Plows & Plowing: Revised Edition

Author : Lynn R. Miller
Publisher : Davila Art & Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885210265
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Horsedrawn Plows & Plowing: Revised Edition written by Lynn R. Miller and published by Davila Art & Books. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers how to plow with horses using older equipment and new implements. Here you will find simple diagrams explaining tricky adjustments for both riding and walking plows. Detailed engineer's drawings will be immensely helpful to folks restoring equipment. Also includes close-up photos and information on new makes of animal-drawn plows including Pioneer and White Horse.

World History

Author : Steven Wallech
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111853266X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book World History written by Steven Wallech and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis presents the highly anticipated second edition of the most affordable and accessible survey of world history designed for use at the college level. An engaging narrative that contextualizes history and does not drown students in a sea of facts Offers a comparative analysis of the great civilizations of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas Addresses themes of population dynamics, food production challenges, disease history, warfare, and other major issues for civilizations Features new interior design and organization to enhance user experience Instructor’s test bank available online at www.wiley.com/go/wallech

The People's Condensed Library

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The People's Condensed Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary

Author : Alyse Neundorf
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826338259
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary written by Alyse Neundorf and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-use Navajo dictionary is intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classrooms, but it is also useful for anyone wanting to learn Navajo.

You May Plow Here

Author : Sara Brooks
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book You May Plow Here written by Sara Brooks and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A profoundly poignant yet triumphant book, a recreation by an Alabama-born black of her struggle against racism and poverty while striving for the common dream of Americans. . . . {A} marvelously earthy 'narrative.'. . . Her memoir is the stuff of human pride made memorable in raw, homely vernacular".--Publishers Weekly.