Pennsylvania Farming : A History in Landscapes /

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Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania's history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in than more sixty years and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMurry, Sally Ann, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Farms > Pennsylvania > History.
Agriculture > Pennsylvania > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. Beginnings
  • 1. Colonial Pennsylvania farming and the Atlantic world
  • 2. Transformations in the new republic, circa 1780-1830
  • part II. The era of regionalism, circa 1830-1910
  • 3. Pennsylvania's farming regions evolve
  • 4. Farm and city in southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1830-1910
  • 5. Transformations on the Lancaster Plain : the rise of America's "Banner County"
  • 6. A different rhythm : York and Adams Counties
  • 7. Landlords and tenants in the ridge and valley region
  • 8. The Susquehanna Lowlands : a little bit of everything
  • 9. Grassland farming in the Northern Tier
  • 10. Northwestern Pennsylvania : "a hard soil and a fickle climate"
  • 11. Southwestern Pennsylvania : riding a wool wave
  • 12. Farms, mines, and industry on the Allegheny Mountain plateau
  • part III. The diverse landscapes of modernization, circa 1910-1965
  • 13. Modernization comes to the Pennsylvania farm
  • 14. Cows and chickens : statewide trends toward dairy and poultry production
  • 15. Persistent localism : local marketing and farm household self-provisioning, circa 1910-1965
  • 16. Potatoes in Dutch country : Lehigh County, circa 1910-1960
  • 17. Potter county, unlikely stop on the "Florida itinerary"
  • 18. Provisioning tourists : farming in the Pocono region, circa 1865-1960
  • 19. The Lake Erie fruit and vegetable belt
  • 20. Apples in Adams : the rise of the Adams County fruit belt, 1875-1960
  • 21. Mushroom country : how a fungus became Pennsylvania's top "vegetable"
  • 22. Amish farming landscapes
  • part IV. Pennsylvania farming in the late twentieth century
  • 23. Swimming with the agricultural mainstream : Pennsylvania farm landscapes since 1960
  • 24. Alternative voices.

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