Reconstruction by Way of the Soil
Description:... An outline history of the relation between civilization and the soil. A universal history of agriculture and a series of striking examples of the effects of civilizations upon their primary biological resources. Dr. Wrench states the essential principles of sound agronomy and gives examples of their fulfilment or violation in China, Mesopotamia, the Roman Empire, Islamic Spain, England, in Africa since the coming of the Europeans, in Egypt and India and the Dutch Empire, in the British colonies, in the U.S.S.R. and in the U.S.A. An eloquent plea for the recognition of natural laws in the symbiosis of soil and civilization.
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