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Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496235622
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900 written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure--and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country's garden spot and the nation's heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region's past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers--and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.

Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233492
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900 written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Douglas Hurt recounts the settlement of the U.S. Midwest between 1815 and the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that this region proved to be the country's garden spot of the country and the nation's heart of agricultural production.

Farming in the Midwest, 1840-1900

Author : James W. Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Farming in the Midwest, 1840-1900 written by James W. Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farming the Cutover

Author : Robert J. Gough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming the Cutover written by Robert J. Gough and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.

A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin

Author : Joseph Schafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin written by Joseph Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agriculture and National Development

Author : Lou Ferleger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608068541
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and National Development written by Lou Ferleger and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Farmer's Age

Author : Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher : New York, Winston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farmer's Age written by Paul Wallace Gates and published by New York, Winston. This book was released on 1960 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in a publisher's series of 9 volumes designed to give a readable survey of the economic history of the United States.

The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History

Author : Jeannie Whayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190924160
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History written by Jeannie Whayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but also because of agriculture's potential to lead to conflicts over precious resources. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History reflects this rebirth and examines the wide-reaching implications of agricultural issues, featuring essays that touch on the green revolution, the development of the Atlantic slave plantation, the agricultural impact of the American Civil War, the rise of scientific and corporate agriculture, and modern exploitation of agricultural labor.

Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900-1939

Author : Theodore Saloutos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900-1939 written by Theodore Saloutos and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farm and Factory

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253328830
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Farm and Factory written by Daniel Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.

The American Midwest

Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253003490
Total Pages : 1918 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 1918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.

The Routledge History of Rural America

Author : Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135054983
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Rural America written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Author : William Cronon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393308731
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-05-05 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the American frontier and city developed together by focusing on Chicago and tracing its roots from Native American habitation to its transformation by white settlement and development.

The Fundamental Institution

Author : Megan Birk
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053370
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamental Institution written by Megan Birk and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans, the disabled, and disaster victims. Most people arrived unable rather than unwilling to work, some because of physical problems, others due to a lack of skills or because a changing labor market had left them behind. Birk blends the personal stories of participants with institutional histories to reveal a loose-knit system that provided a measure of care to everyone without an overarching philosophy of reform or rehabilitation. In-depth and innovative, The Fundamental Institution offers an overdue portrait of rural social welfare in the United States.

Sweet Tyranny

Author : Kathleen Mapes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091809
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Tyranny written by Kathleen Mapes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labor. Identifying rural areas as centers for modern American industrialism, Mapes contributes to an ongoing reorientation of labor history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers. She engages with a full range of individuals, including Midwestern family farmers, industrialists, Eastern European and Mexican immigrants, child laborers, rural reformers, Washington politicos, and colonial interests. Engagingly written, Sweet Tyranny demonstrates that capitalism was not solely a force from above but was influenced by the people below who defended their interests in an ever-expanding imperialist market.

Those who Stayed Behind

Author : Hal S. Barron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347778
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Those who Stayed Behind written by Hal S. Barron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community in America, Chelsea, Vermont. He explores the economic hardships and population loss that most of America at this time experienced growth and geographical expansion. This book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural America.

A Companion to American Agricultural History

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119632226
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Agricultural History written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.