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9781421423357 Academic Inspection Copy

Born in the Country

A History of Rural America
  • ISBN-13: 9781421423357
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David B. Danbom
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2017
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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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 masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions about the American experience.
 
Danbom employs the stories of particular farm families to illustrate the experiences of rural people—including the persistence of Old-World custom, chores of family members, decisions about inheritance, the evolution from subsistence to commercial farming, movement westward, demographic erosion as children left for cities, the rise of corporate agriculture, and the decline of family farming.
 
This substantially revised and updated third edition
 
  • expands and deepens its coverage of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
  • focuses on the changes in agriculture and rural life in the progressive and New Deal eras as well as the massive shifts that have taken place since 1945
  • adds new information about African American and Native American agricultural experiences
  • discusses the decline of agriculture as a productive enterprise and its impact on farm families and communities
  • explores rural culture, gender issues, agriculture, and the environment
  • traces the relationship among farmers, agribusiness, and consumers
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    In a new and provocative concluding chapter, Danbom reflects on increasing consumer disenchantment with and resistance to modern agriculture as well as the transformation of rural America into a place where farmers are a shrinking minority. Ultimately, he asks whether a distinctive style of rural life exists any longer.
     

    Preface to the Third Edition
    Preface to the Second Edition
    Preface to the First Edition
    1. Rural Europe and Pre-Columbian America
    2. The Rural Development of English North America
    3. Maturity and Its Discontents
    4. Agriculture and Economic Growth in the Young Republic
    5. Rural Life in the Young Nation
    6. The Unmaking and Remaking of the Rural South
    7. Rural America in the Age of Industrialization
    8. Prosperity and Its Discontents
    9. From the Best of Times to the Worst
    10. The New Deal and Rural America
    11. The Production Revolution and the New Agriculture
    12. Agriculture and Rural Life in the Twenty-First Century
    Notes
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    Index

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