Farmers Helping Farmers : The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935 /

"One of the largest volunteer movements in the twentieth century, local farm and home bureau organizations have been woefully underrepresented in socio-political studies of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Nancy K. Berlage addresses this omission with an insightful look at how bureau member...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berlage, Nancy K., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Agriculture > Societies, etc.
Agriculture, Cooperative.
Agriculture.
Agriculture > United States > History > 20th century.
Agriculture, Cooperative > United States > History > 20th century.
Agriculture > United States > Societies, etc. > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Local author.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Organizational structure: the rise of the local farm bureau
  • Organizational strategy: economic, political, and social functions
  • Science, cultural authority, and the farm bureau: bovine tuberculosis
  • Home bureaus and the sciences of separate spheres
  • Women and the agricultural occupation
  • Reproducing the farm family: youth clubs, gender, and science
  • Conclusion.

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