Revisiting Rural America – serie
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Preserving the Family Farm
Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940
Av Mary C. Neth
Häftad, 1999
468 kr
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Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since …
All We Knew Was to Farm
Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
Inbunden, 2000
717 kr
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In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New …
Cultivating California
Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920
Av David Vaught
Häftad, 2002
452 kr
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In Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these "horticulturists" saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture-raising crops for market while self-consciously building healthy …
Consumers in the Country
Technology and Social Change in Rural America
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies-the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power-transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how …
Consumers in the Country
Technology and Social Change in Rural America
Inbunden, 2000
564 kr
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From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies-the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power-transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how …
All We Knew Was to Farm
Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
Häftad, 2002
295 kr
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In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New …
Born in the Country
A History of Rural America
Häftad, 2017
336 kr
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Throughout most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first-and still the only-general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book …
