Nature of the Future

Introduction: Bending Reality with Large Strawberries

Part 1 Performances

1 Capitalist Aristocracy
2 No Ordinary Farmers

Part 2 Experiments

3 Experiments All for Worldly Gain
4 Trying Machines

Part 3 Futures
5 Coining Foliage into Gold
6 Divining Adaptation

Part 4 Values

7 Truth in Fruit
8 The Balance-Sheet of Nature

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index

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• Indústrias primárias
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• História das Américas
• Botânica e ciências das plantas

environmental history;history of capitalism;history of science;agricultural improvement;agricultural science;United States history;Market Revolution;history of capitalism