Steven Stoll: 3 books
Ramp Hollow
The Ordeal of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia
Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original...
Larding the Lean Earth
Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic...
The Great Delusion
A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should—even that they must—expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present...