Soil science Americana : chronicles and progressions 1860-1960 / Alfred E. Hartemink.
Hartemink, Alfred E., 1964- author.
2021
S590.73.U6 H37 2021
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Title
Soil science Americana : chronicles and progressions 1860-1960 / Alfred E. Hartemink.
Author
Hartemink, Alfred E., 1964- author.
ISBN
9783030711351 (electronic bk.)
3030711358 (electronic bk.)
9783030711344
303071134X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71135-1
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-71135-1 doi
9783030711351
urn urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021091504073192892625
Call Number
S590.73.U6 H37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.4/973
Summary
This book narrates how the study of the soil became a science and institutionalized in the USA between 1860 and 1960. The story meanders through the activities, ideas, publications, and correspondence of people who influenced the progressions, that led to the budding and early blossoming of American and international soil science. Interwoven is a tale of two farm boys who grew up 900 km apart in the Midwest USA in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Emil Truog and Charles Kellogg met in the late 1920s and shared a natural connection to the soil. Both were practical pioneers and believed that understanding soils was crucial to helping people on the land make a better living. The USA is a big country, its soil science is geographically intertwined, and the cradle of its history primes back to a few people.
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Preface
Foreword by Ron Amundson, Maxine Levin
Acknowledgements
About this book.-About the author
1. Prologue - The roots of soil science
2. Pochva Americana I
3. From a farm on loess - Emil Truog
4. From a farm on till - Charles Kellogg
5. From a farm on the plains - Roy Simonson
6. The mother of the west
7. Building an American soil survey
8. Of soils and men
9. Pochva Americana II
10. Building international soil science
11. First International Congress of Soil Science in 1927
12. From 1927 to 1960, and a favor returned
13. Seventh International Congress of Soil Science in 1960
14. Chronicles and Progressions
15. Epilogue
References
Subject index
Person index.

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