The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture As Colonization in the American West

by Frieda Knobloch

Book Overview

In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784585X
• ISBN13: 9780807845851
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"