When a Dream Dies : Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s /

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"Iowa in the 1980s-the state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and small town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Farmers > Economic conditions.
Farm tenancy > Economic aspects.
Economic history.
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Iowa > History > 20th century.
Farm tenancy > Economic aspects > Iowa > History > 20th century.
Farmers > Iowa > Economic conditions.
Iowa.
Iowa > Economic conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The go-go seventies
  • 1979-1983, from fencerow to fencerow to failure
  • 1984, the year of realization
  • 1985, from penny auctions to declaration of emergency
  • 1986, from fears of violence to glimmers of hope
  • 1987-1993, from crisis to chronic
  • Epilogue: last generation farmers.

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