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Author : Marion Humble
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Rural America Reads written by Marion Humble and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline S. Kelsohn
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590335000
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Rural America written by Caroline S. Kelsohn and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson once envisioned the United States as a 'nation of yeomen farmers'. Looking around today, however, illustrates that nothing could be further from the truth. In a globalised world and techno-centred society, urban sprawl is overtaking rural America. For over a century, farming was the backbone of the American economy, and though it is still critical to American productivity, many rural areas are plagued by poverty and job reduction. Agricultural issues have a hold over national politics (as in the debates over farm subsidies), but they cannot change several significant trends in America today: the movement toward fewer and larger farms, environmental pressures from urban and suburban interests, and changing food consumption patterns. In order to assist the remaining 'yeomen farmers', a comprehensive and integrated agricultural policy must be initiated to sustain the nation's farming communities. This book analyses the status of the farm industry in rural America, providing a historical context for agriculture and assessing its future for the nation. and the information provided in this book is necessary to understanding the nature of what has historically been a key component of American industry and life.
Author : Benjamin William Frazier
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book America Builds a School System written by Benjamin William Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur E. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135147409X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Small Community written by Arthur E. Morgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is the lifeblood of civilization, this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities.Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem.The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community.
Author : Brigitte Fielder
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299321509
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Against a Sharp White Background written by Brigitte Fielder and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting as they are enabling. Contributors to this volume explore the relationship between expression and such frameworks, analyzing how different mediums, library catalogs, and search engines shape the production and reception of written and visual culture. Topics include antebellum literature, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement; “post-Black” art, the role of black librarians, and how present-day technologies aid or hinder the discoverability of work by African Americans. Against a Sharp White Background covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.
Author : Norton Juster
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555912505
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)
Download or read book A Woman's Place written by Norton Juster and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the Civil War and the turn of the century was a time of great social upheaval in the United States. Lured by the promises of industrialization, much of the rural population moved to the cities, but those who remained in the countryside were isolated from the rapid changes in American society. Women found themselves torn between the battle for women's rights being hotly debated in the cities and the traditional role of homemaker, mother, and helper that was the norm in rural areas. In A Woman's Place, Norton Juster brings this turbulent period of American history to life using a broad sampling of articles, letters, poems, and essays taken from the popular literature of the time. While these publications recognized the hardship that characterized the lives of their readers, they upheld the idealized vision of the farmer's wife. It is this historical conflict between the independent woman and the traditional female role that makes A Woman's Place important reading today.
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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Good References written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley A. Wiegand
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168688
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South written by Shirley A. Wiegand and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions ensured that local libraries would become genuinely free to all citizens. The Wiegands trace the struggle for equal access to the years before the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, when black activists in the South focused their efforts on equalizing accommodations, rather than on the more daunting—and dangerous—task of undoing segregation. After the ruling, momentum for vigorously pursuing equality grew, and black organizations shifted to more direct challenges to the system, including public library sit-ins and lawsuits against library systems. Although local groups often took direction from larger civil rights organizations, the energy, courage, and determination of younger black community members ensured the eventual desegregation of Jim Crow public libraries. The Wiegands examine the library desegregation movement in several southern cities and states, revealing the ways that individual communities negotiated—mostly peacefully, sometimes violently—the integration of local public libraries. This study adds a new chapter to the history of civil rights activism in the mid-twentieth century and celebrates the resolve of community activists as it weaves the account of racial discrimination in public libraries through the national narrative of the civil rights movement.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Printers' Ink written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Library List written by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information. PRESS SERVICE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Daily Digest written by United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Office of Information. PRESS SERVICE and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Economics Literature written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Education
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Education
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nora Ernestine Beust
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book School Library Administration written by Nora Ernestine Beust and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190248025
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Part of Our Lives written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as public places that promote and maintain community. Whether as a public space, a place for accessing information, or a home for reading material that helps patrons make sense of the world around them, the public library has a rich history of meaning for millions of Americans. From colonial times through the recent technological revolution, libraries have continuously adapted to better serve the needs of their communities. Wiegand demonstrates that, although cultural authorities (including some librarians) have often disparaged reading books considered not "serious," the commonplace reading materials users obtained from public libraries have had a transformative effect for many, including people such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Moyers, Edgwina Danticat, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey. A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions.
Author : National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Convention written by National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
