Planting the Seeds of Research: How America's Ultimate Investment Transformed Agriculture - Paperback

by Louis A. Ferleger (Author)

'Planting the Seeds of Research' explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.

Author Biography

Louis A. Ferleger is professor of history at Boston University, USA, and former chair of its History Department. He has published, edited or co-authored seven books. The former executive director of the Historical Society, Ferleger was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Grant; an Earhart Foundation Fellowship; a research grant from the Twentieth Century Fund; and a Charles Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Department of History, Harvard University.