Abstract
PROF. BOGART'S book, although an independent volume, is in the main comprised of the relevant chapters from his “Economic History of the United States,” and is primarily intended for agricultural teachers and students. It is an extremely readable and fascinating account of a subject that can only too easily be made dull. The prime necessity of a book “that serves as a general introduction to a subject is that it should maintain a fair perspective. This is never an easy task, least of all in agriculture, owing to its position as the fundamental industry of mankind, on which, in the ultimate analysis, all civilisation is based. The difficulty is further accentuated in the case of American agriculture owing to the rapid growth of every phase of that country's activities. Prof. Bogart has successfully overcome these formidable obstacles. Whether he is dealing with the application of machinery to agriculture, the great Westward movement, or the system of land tenure, he leaves the reader with a clear and unbiased idea of the esse tial facts. His conclusions are presented in a final chapter that abounds with terse comments, of which the follow ing is typical: “There is finally an inconsistency, not to say a danger, in a society which is politically democratic, but economically plutocratic.”
Economic History of American Agriculture.
Prof.
E. L.
Bogart
By. Pp. x + 173. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.) 6s. net.
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K., B. Economic History of American Agriculture. Nature 113, 531 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113531b0
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