Born in the Country A History of Rural America

Name: Born in the Country A History of Rural America
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ISBN: 9780801884597

ISBN-10: 0801884594

ISBN-13: 9780801884597

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: David B. Danbom

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Born in the Country was the first -- and is still the only -- general history of rural America published. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, Born in the Country masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions social historians have raised about the American experience -- including the different experiences of whites and blacks, men and women, natives and new immigrants. In this second edition, David B. Danbom expands and deepens his coverage of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the changes in agriculture and rural life since 1945. He discusses the alarming decline of…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the First Edition



Rural Europe and Pre-Columbian America



The Rural Development of English North America



Maturity and Its Discontents



Agriculture and Economic Growth in the New Republic



Rural Life in the Young Nation



The Unmaking and Remaking of the Rural South



Rural America in the Age of Industrialization



Prosperity and Its Discontents



From the Best of Times to the Worst



The New Deal and Rural America



The Production Revolution and the New Agriculture


Afterword: A Rural America without Agriculture


Notes


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index