Cargando…

Sod Busting : How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains /

"Stretching beyond the sweeping accounts typical of standard textbooks, Danbom challenges students to think about the many practicalities of surviving on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century by providing a detailed account of how settlers acquired land and made homes, farms, and comm...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Danbom, David B., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a22000004a 4500
001 musev2_47650
003 MdBmJHUP
005 20230905044945.0
006 m o d
007 cr||||||||nn|n
008 131216s2014 mdu o 00 0 eng d
010 |z  2013044629 
020 |a 9781421414522 
020 |z 9781421414508 
020 |z 9781421414515 
035 |a (OCoLC)957138029 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Danbom, David B.,  |d 1947- 
245 1 0 |a Sod Busting :   |b How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains /   |c David B. Danbom. 
264 1 |a Baltimore :  |b Johns Hopkins University Press,  |c 2014. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2016 
264 4 |c ©2014. 
300 |a 1 online resource (144 pages):   |b illustrations ; 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 0 |a How things worked 
505 0 |a How they acquired land -- How they built farms -- How they got credit -- How they built communities -- How the plains matured. 
520 |a "Stretching beyond the sweeping accounts typical of standard textbooks, Danbom challenges students to think about the many practicalities of surviving on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century by providing a detailed account of how settlers acquired land and made homes, farms, and communities. He examines the physical and climatic obstacles of the plains - perhaps America's most inhospitable frontier - and shows how settlers sheltered themselves, gained access to fuel and water, and broke the land for agriculture. Treating the Great Plains as a post-industrial frontier, Danbom delves into the economic motivations of settlers, as well as the physically and economically difficult process of farm making. He explains how settlers got the capital they needed to succeed and how they used the labor of the entire family to survive until farms returned profits. He examines closely the business decisions that determined the success or failure of these farmers in a boom-and-bust economy; details the creation of churches, schools, and service centers that enriched the social and material lives of the settlers; and shows how the support of government, railroads, and other businesses contributed to the success of plains settlement. Based on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land."--Back cover. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 7 |a Exploitations agricoles familiales  |z États-Unis  |z Grandes Plaines (États-Unis)  |y 19e siecle.  |2 ram 
650 7 |a Agriculteurs  |z États-Unis  |z Grandes Plaines (États-Unis)  |y 19e siecle.  |2 ram 
650 7 |a Familienbetrieb  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Landwirtschaft  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Farmers.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00921321 
650 7 |a Agriculture.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00801355 
650 6 |a Agriculteurs  |z Grandes Plaines  |x Histoire  |y 19e siecle. 
650 6 |a Agriculture  |z Grandes Plaines  |x Histoire  |y 19e siecle. 
650 0 |a Farmers  |z Great Plains  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Agriculture  |z Great Plains  |x History  |y 19th century. 
610 2 5 |a Farmers  |z Great Plains  |x History  |y 19th century 
651 7 |a Great Plains  |2 gnd 
651 7 |a Great Plains.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01240567 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/47650/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection