{"product_id":"digging-the-past-9780812252330","title":"Digging the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigging the Past\u003c\/i\u003e [traces] the ideal of agricultural improvement back to seventeenth-century England and applies the persuasive, affinal, alliterative skills of the literary scholar to revive the reputation of scientific contributions to agriculture...Dolan’s considerations illuminate the question of efficiency in ways that\u003cbr\u003e are valuable, interesting, and an important contribution to today’s debates.\u003c\/p\u003e \" * isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"Frances E. Dolan shows not only how and why seventeenth-century agriculture worked or was imagined but how and why we should concern ourselves with such historical studies in the face of pressing current issues. Her writing is memorably wry and witty, eloquent and passionate, and always marked by clarity. She makes us welcome the difficult task of thinking harder about everything from plows to manure-and not as odd or quaint digressions, but as things surprisingly central to early modern and current conceptions of culture.\" * Leah Knight, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Green in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on the Text\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Feeding the Hungry Earth: Figuration, Composition, and Compost\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Knowing Your Food: Turnips, Titus, and the Local\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Saving Wine: Terroir and the Quest for Natural Wine\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Weaving Hedges\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Visiting Jamestown\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405743661399,"sku":"9780812252330","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252330.jpg?v=1730493458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/digging-the-past-9780812252330","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}