Proving Up
Domesticating Land in U.S. History
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2011
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-3078-2 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-3078-2 (ISBN)
Using an interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics, this title explores the history of land domestication in the United States.
Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.
On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in Wyoming, was shot by his neighbor in a dispute over water as he attempted to "prove up" and gain title to his homestead. Attempting to understand her grandfather's passion and determination for making his own 160 acres of land in dry, sagebrush country led Professor Lisi Krall on a unique journey through the interconnections of economy, culture, and land in the history of the United States. She tells the story of the domestication of land in the United States, a story that hinges on the market economy and the agrarian and wilderness ethos as foundational land institutions. Drawing on institutional or evolutionary economics, Proving Up explores in detail the rich and ever-changing intermingling of culture, economic, and material conditions through American history. Untangling the complicated history of Americans' experiences with nature, Krall provides a critical focus and a timely contribution to the current debate surrounding our relationship to land and nature.
Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.
On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in Wyoming, was shot by his neighbor in a dispute over water as he attempted to "prove up" and gain title to his homestead. Attempting to understand her grandfather's passion and determination for making his own 160 acres of land in dry, sagebrush country led Professor Lisi Krall on a unique journey through the interconnections of economy, culture, and land in the history of the United States. She tells the story of the domestication of land in the United States, a story that hinges on the market economy and the agrarian and wilderness ethos as foundational land institutions. Drawing on institutional or evolutionary economics, Proving Up explores in detail the rich and ever-changing intermingling of culture, economic, and material conditions through American history. Untangling the complicated history of Americans' experiences with nature, Krall provides a critical focus and a timely contribution to the current debate surrounding our relationship to land and nature.
Lisi Krall is Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Cortland.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision and the Changing Nature of Property
2. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies (1785–1862)
3. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies on Arid Land
4. Multidimensional Land
5. Wilderness
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 218 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-3078-7 / 1438430787 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-3078-2 / 9781438430782 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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