{"id":592,"date":"2020-04-22T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=592"},"modified":"2020-06-09T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:34:00","slug":"online-book-talk-emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/online-book-talk-emily-pawley-the-nature-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Emily Pawley, The Nature of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (USA), discussed her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/N\/bo48885576.html\">The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum North<\/a><\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse book talk series on Monday, 8 June, 16:00 European Central time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\u00a0<em>The Nature of the Future<\/em>\u00a0aims to remake this staid vision. Emily Pawley examines a place\u00a0and period of enormous agricultural vitality\u2014antebellum New York State\u2014and follows thousands of \u201cimproving agriculturists,\u201d part of the largest, most diverse, and most active scientific community in nineteenth-century America. Pawley shows that these improvers practiced a kind of science hard for contemporary readers to recognize, in which profit was not only a goal but also the underlying purpose of the natural world. Far from producing a more rational vision of nature, northern farmers practiced a form of science where conflicting visions of the future landscape appeared and evaporated in quick succession. Drawing from environmental history, US history and the history of science, and extensively mining a wealth of antebellum agricultural publications,\u00a0<em>The Nature of the Future<\/em>\u00a0uncovers the rich loam hiding beneath ostensibly infertile scholarly terrain, revealing a surprising area of agricultural experimentation that transformed American landscapes and American ideas of expertise, success, and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk: Pawley\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/427292277?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Environmental humanities book talk with Emily Pawley <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Pawley, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College (USA), discussed her book The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science and Capitalism in the Antebellum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pawley_cover.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}