Studies in Rural Culture – serie
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13 produkter
Agrarian Women
Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940
Av Deborah Fink
Häftad, 1992
591 kr
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Agrarian Women challenges the widely held assumption that frontier farm life in the United States made it easier for women to achieve rough equality with men. Using as her example the family farm in rural Nebraska from the 1880s until the eve of World War II, Deborah Fink contends instead that …
American Dreams, Rural Realities
Family Farms in Crisis
Häftad, 1993
614 kr
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Using Dodge County, Georgia, as a case study, Peggy Barlett reveals consumerism, individualism, and short-term decision making as the greatest threats to the family farm. ""This book is of value not only to students of agriculture and rural sociology but also to city dwellers attempting to …
Transformation of Rural Life
Southern Illinois, 1890-1990
Av Jane Adams
Häftad, 1994
614 kr
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Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of …
Country People in the New South
Tennessee's Upper Cumberland
Häftad, 1995
516 kr
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Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until …
Poquosin
A Study of Rural Landscape and Society
Häftad, 1995
516 kr
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Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, …
Prairie Patrimony
Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
Häftad, 1995
545 kr
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Prairie Patrimony consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. . . . No one should doubt the great contribution that Salamon has made to our understanding of American rural life.""-- …
Culture of Wilderness
Agriculture As Colonization in the American West
Häftad, 1996
516 kr
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In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the …
Mixed Harvest
The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
Häftad, 1997
545 kr
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Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and …
Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line
Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
Av Deborah Fink
Häftad, 1998
635 kr
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The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and …
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Häftad, 1999
516 kr
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Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping …
World of Its Own
Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970
Av Matt Garcia
Häftad, 2002
516 kr
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Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and Pomona …
Working the Garden
American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
Häftad, 2002
576 kr
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In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical, …
Mama Learned Us to Work
Farm Women in the New South
Av Lu Ann Jones
Häftad, 2002
516 kr
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Black and white farm women as consumers, producers, and agents of change; Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages …
