Emily Pawley is Walter E. Beach '56 Chair in Sustainability Studies and associate professor of history at Dickinson College.
Winner-- "History of Science Society 2021 Philip Pauly Prize"
"An important work, deeply researched, strikingly incisive, and
stunningly original. . . . Pawley adds depth and nuance to our
understanding of antebellum culture and society. . . . And because
Pawley approaches her subject matter with both a discerning eye and
a sense of delight, her prose, for all its erudition, is laced with
charm and wit. . . . If The Nature of the Future whets our
intellectual appetites for more, it is because Pawley's scholarship
has yielded a bumper crop of food for thought. Dig in."--
"Agricultural History"
"The Nature of the Future is a crisply written and lively account
of agricultural improvement in the antebellum Northeast. Come for
the mammoth squashes, drunken plants, and butter battles; stay for
the incisive and illuminating history, brilliantly told."--Wendy A.
Woloson, author of Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
"In this book, Pawley deftly hands us invention, experimentation,
evidence, truth . . . and mulberries. In nineteenth-century
bookkeeping of field nutrients, raucous debates over apple
varieties, and Thoreau's sarcasm, she discovers the science,
economics, and commercial imagination that shaped American farming
and our modern meals. The writing is a delight--insightful, sure,
and often funny. The Nature of the Future will be of keen interest
to historians of capitalism, place, and food--and to anyone helping
chart our environmental present."--Conevery Bolton Valencius,
author of The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
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