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Author : James W. Whitaker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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:
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Farmer's Frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233492
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
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.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496235622
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
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.
Author : Robert J. Gough
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Paul Salstrom
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534538
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)
Download or read book From Pioneering to Persevering written by Paul Salstrom and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality. The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer. Salstrom examines this "independence" and finds the label to be less than adequate. Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing and loaning. When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the issue is a societal one with a greater population involved than just the farmers themselves.
Author : Allen G. Noble
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144655X
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Barns of the Midwest written by Allen G. Noble and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1995, Barns of the Midwest is a masterful example of material cultural history. It arrived at a critical moment for the agricultural landscape. The 1980s were marked by farm foreclosures, rural bank failures, the continued rise of industrialized agriculture, and severe floods and droughts. These waves of disaster hastened the erosion of the idea of a pastoral Heartland knit together with small farms and rural values. And it wasn’t just an idea that was eroded; material artifacts such as the iconic Midwestern barn were also rapidly wearing away. It was against this background that editors Noble and Wilhelm gathered noted experts in history and architecture to write on the nature and meaning of Midwestern barns, explaining why certain barns were built as they were, what types of barns appeared where, and what their functions were. Featuring a new introduction by Timothy G. Anderson, Barns of the Midwest is the definitive work on this ubiquitous but little studied architectural symbol of a region and its history.
Author : Sue Headlee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313389160
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Family Farm written by Sue Headlee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1991-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.
Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521553070
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of the United States written by Stanley L. Engerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of economic activity and economic change in the United States, and in those regions whose economies have at certain times been closely allied to that of the US.
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Agricultural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Chapman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Guide to Historical Research at the National Agriculture Library written by Susan Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Huston
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807159204
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer written by James L. Huston and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Rather, Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-56 and the birth of a sectionalized party system. Huston shows that over 70 percent of the northern population-by far the dominant economic and social element-had close ties to agriculture. More invested in egalitarianism and personal competency than in capitalism, small farmers in the North operated under a free labor ideology that emphasized the ideals of independence and mastery over oneself. The ideology of the plantation, by contrast, reflected the conservative ethos of the British aristocracy, which was the product of immense landed inequality and the assertion of mastery over others. By examining the dominant populations in northern and southern congressional districts, Huston reveals that economic interests pitted the plantation South against the small-farm North. The northern shift toward Republicanism depended on farmers, not industrialists: While Democrats won the majority of northern farm congressional districts from 1842 to 1853, they suffered a major defection of these districts from 1854 to 1856, to the antislavery organizations that would soon coalesce into the Republican Party. Utilizing extensive historical research and close examination of the voting patterns in congressional districts across the country, James Huston provides a remarkable new context for the origins of the Civil War.
Author : Frederick V. Carstensen
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532701
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Outstanding in His Field written by Frederick V. Carstensen and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honoring Wayne D. Rasmussen, Mr. Agriculture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and throughout the nation, this book comprises essays by distinguished authors from varied disciplines on the past achievements, current status, and future challenges of agriculture history.
Author : Fred W. Peterson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913846
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Homes in the Heartland written by Fred W. Peterson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992.
Author : Ron Macher
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1603425357
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Making Your Small Farm Profitable written by Ron Macher and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn your farm into a cash cow! Ron Macher offers a host of simple strategies for increasing your farm earnings, from purchasing durable equipment to growing economically viable crops. A seasoned expert in farm efficiency, Macher shows you how to locate a lucrative niche market for your products, optimize sales, and minimize costs. Whether you’re buying a new farm or jump-starting an old one, Macher’s savvy tips will help you turn your enterprise into a profitable business.
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Total Pages : 1282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen A. Vincent
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213310
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Southern Seed, Northern Soil written by Stephen A. Vincent and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He analyzes the founders' backgrounds as a distinctive free people of color in the Old South; the migration that culminated in the communities' successful beginnings; the settlements' transformations through the pioneer and Civil War eras; and the increasing transition to commercial farming in the late nineteenth century." "Southern Seed, Northern Soil is based on source materials, including census manuscripts, land deeds, probate records, family letters, and newspapers."--BOOK JACKET.
