In 2011, he deployed to the republic of korea and commanded a tank company and a batallian Headquarters Company on the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. In 2014, he was selected for advanced civil schooling at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. He graduated with a masters degree in history in 2016, and assumed the position as an instructor in the department of history at the United States military academy. At usma, he taught courses in both military and United States history, and currently directs the Academy Course civil war america, which studies americas society, politics, economy, and military from 1816 to 1877. Hes joined tonight by his wife, shannon, and together theyve got three kids, nate, liam, and elizabeth, 12, 2 and 1yearold. Turn over things to major lambert. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much mr. Rowan for the introduction, and thank you all for being here tonight to learn a bit about civil war gunpowder and logistics. As always, although i
Headquarters company on the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. In 2014 he was selected for advanced civil schooling at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. He graduated with a masters degree in history in 2016. And assumed the position as an instructor in the department of history at the United States military academy at usma. He taught courses in both military and United States history. And currently directs the Academy Chorus civil war america, which studies americas society, politics, economy and military from 1816 to 1877. Hes joined tonight by his wife shannon and together theyve got three kids, nate, liam and elizabeth, 12, 2 and 1 years old. Turn over things now to major lambert. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for the introduction and thank you for being here to learn about civil war gun powder and logistics. As always, although i am a major in the United States army nothing i say tonight is the opinion or policy of the d. O. D. , all views are entirely m
Farming. He describes how during the 1800s, farmers look for nitrates, and moving away from traditional methods such as field rotation. This class is about 50 minutes. My name is paul. I am a professor. I want to welcome cspan viewers to our history class. This is an environmental history focus. And today, our history is on agriculture and the fertilizer revolution. We began this course talking about agriculture and the frontier the expansion of the agricultural frontier across the world. And the birth of the plantation complex in tropical regions. But another critical storyline of the last few hundred years has been agricultural intensification. The growing, getting more crops out of those. And this coincides with the industrial revolution. In thereated a real need europe and United States to really concentrate on food ,roduction to escape the trap this notion that population would grow faster than to production. We were talking about something called the green revolution. Where a lot
The environmental history of agriculture has been agricultural intensification. The growing, intensifying landuse to get more crops out of those lands. This coincides with the industrial revolution, which inated a real need for those europe and the United States to really concentrate on increasing Food Production to escape the that population would grow faster than a Food Production. There was the green revolution, where modern agriculture and genetic engineering was introduced to the developing world. Today i want to talk about the 19th century and the fertilizer revolution. In a most general sense, a shift away from close to systems of fertility wasoil raised within the farms and various ways. And we will talk about that. A and openged to system where concentrated forms of soil fertility were imported into the farm. And brought out intensively, used nutrients off the farm, out of soils, and away from the land. This became an open system of Nutrient Cycling. Term, i gote this this als
Today, our lecture is on agriculture and the fertilizer revolution. We began this course talking about agriculture with regards to the unending frontier, the expanding across the world, and the birth of the plantation complex in tropical regions. Another critical storyline and the environmental history of agriculture has been agricultural intensification. The growing, intensifying landuse to get more crops out of those lands. This coincides with the industrial revolution, which created a real need for those in europe and the United States to really concentrate on increasing Food Production to escape the trap, thinking that population would grow faster than a Food Production. There was the green revolution, where modern agriculture and genetic engineering was introduced to the developing world. Today i want to talk about the 19th century and the fertilizer revolution. In a most general sense, a shift away from close to systems of agriculture, soil fertility was raised within the farms a