This volume provides a fresh historical focus on George Washington as a pioneer farmer actively engaged in a new approach to agriculture: one based on a more scientific attitude toward crops, farm... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:093191728X
ISBN13:9780931917288
Release Date:July 2002
Publisher:Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union,
Gracefully explores an important area of Washington's life
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The book is a finally written, well reserched study of Washington's agricultural endeavors. As a careful examiner of Washington's life, I can tell you that the Fusonies' rpovided a much needed study of an aspect of Washington's life that was important not only to himself, but to the planter society he lived in. This book's careful study of Washington provides a better synopsis of the role of agriculture in molding the Virginia society that produces many of the leaders of the Revolution than more well-known books such as, Tobacco Culture by T.H. Breen
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