Pawley, Emily. Cataloging Nature: Standardizing Fruit Varieties in the United States, 1800–1860. Business History Review 90, no. 3 (2016): 405-429., For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University...
The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of...
The article focuses on science in the early American republic. Topics discussed include the ways that scientific ideas and controversies illuminated and animated the intellectual and public life of Americans during the late...