The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch
A boom-to-bust generational saga of a pioneer family and their cattle empire Cattle ranching has long been a major force in Florida, covering over 12 percent of the state's lands. In Cow Creek Chronicles, journalist Gregory Enns explores this history through the century-long saga of the Raulerson family, who built a cattle empire at Cow Creek ......
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America-long romanticized in pastoral literature-becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US ......
A veterinarian is arguably the most broad-based medical practitioner, a "One Health" provider. Such a practitioner understands the intersections and overlap of animal health, human health, and the shared environment between the two. Pigs, Pets, and Public Health captures the multi-faceted expertise that such work requires and shows us how rural ......
Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia investigates industrial farming in the modern developing world. Seeking adventure and profit, the transplanted farmers created what Andrew Ofstehage calls "flexible farms" that have severed connections with the basic ......
Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia investigates industrial farming in the modern developing world. Seeking adventure and profit, the transplanted farmers created what Andrew Ofstehage calls "flexible farms" that have severed connections with the basic ......
For nearly two decades, Brian Kaller has immersed himself in the communal world of rural Ireland and fumbled toward a more traditional way of life for himself while raising a daughter in the countryside. Kaller's prodigious work with communal elders, archives, oral histories, and memoirs has assembled a portrait of 20th century Ireland that can ......
Tulou As Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destinationin Contemporary China
Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Heritage introduces readers outside of China to this classic example of local Chinese architecture in the context ......
Tulou As Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist Destinationin Contemporary China
Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Heritage introduces readers outside of China to this classic example of local Chinese architecture in the context ......
Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies
In August 1889, the five states that were once part of the Dakota 1861 Territory-North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho-drafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States. These constitutions were models of progressive and pragmatic values for their time. Wyoming, for instance, was the first state ......
