Planting the Seeds of Research : How Americas Ultimate Investment Transformed Agriculture

Cover
Front Matter
	Half-title
	Title page
	Copyright information
	Dedication
	Table of Contents
	List of Tables
	Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapters Int-6
	Introduction The Anatomy of The Ultimate Investment
	Chapter 1 Uplifting American Agriculture: Experiment Station Scientists and the Office of Experiment Stations in the Early Years After the Hatch Act
	Chapter 2 Higher Education for an Innovative Economy: Land-Grant Colleges and the Managerial Revolution in America
	Chapter 3 Arming Agriculture: How the Usda’s Top Managers Promoted Agricultural Development
	Chapter 4 Transatlantic Travails: German Experiment Stations and the Transformation of American Agriculture
	Chapter 5 European Agricultural Development and Institutional Change: German Experiment Stations, 1870–1920
	Chapter 6 The Managerial Revolution and the Developmental State: The Case of U.S. Agriculture
End Matter
	Bibliography
	Index