http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55467 Mon, 13 May 2013 18:05:54 GMT 2013-05-13T18:05:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83273 Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity Sylvester, Kenneth M. Farms stood at an ecological frontier in the 1930s. With new and better agricultural machinery, more farms than ever before made the leap to thousand acre enterprises. But did they abandon mixed husbandry in the process? This article explores the origins of the modem relationship between scale and diversity using a new sample of Kansas farms. In 25 townships across the state, between 1875 and 1940, the evidence demonstrates that relatively few plains farms were agents of early monoculture. Rather than a process driven by single-crop farming, settlement was shaped by farms that grew more diverse with each generation. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83273 2009-08-05T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83252 Differentiating a Republican Citizenry: Talents, Human Science, and Enlightenment Theories of Governance Carson, John This essay explores how the Enlightenment preoccupation with nature and reason, and the concomitant desire to restructure civil and political society according to these principles, served simultaneously to write certain speculations within mental philosophy into the heart of the republican project and to orient the emerging human sciences toward embracing those social formations most consonant with the developing notions of the republican citizen and the enlightened society. Using the development of the language of talents in the eighteenth century as its focus, the essay examines how Enlightenment political writers and mental philosophers--including Locke, Hartley, Condillac, Cabanis, Rousseau, Helvetius, Godwin, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Jefferson, and Adams--elaborated a vision, on the one hand, of a new social-political order founded on merit and, on the other, of human nature as an object of both scientific and political interest. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/83252 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56191 The Duke and His Artists: The Politics of Visual Representation in Public Spectacles of Florence during the Reign of Cosimo I de’ Medici Kim, Sang Woo Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/56191 2006-03-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55466 A Crisis of Identity: Remembering Stalingrad in Anglo-America Edelson, Gabriel J. Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55466 2006-03-27T00:00:00Z