The rural Midwest since World War II /

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J.L. Anderson seeks to change the belief that the Midwest lacks the kind of geographic coherence, historical issues, and cultural touchstones that have informed regional identity in the American South, West, and Northeast. The goal of this illuminating volume is to demonstrate uniqueness in a region...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Anderson, J. L. (Joseph Leslie), 1966- (Editor), Hurt, R. Douglas (Author of introduction, etc.), Allshouse, Shaun (Designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Agriculture > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Sociology, Rural > Middle West.
Agriculture > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sociologie rurale > Midwest (États-Unis)
Agriculture.
Economic history.
Rural conditions.
Social conditions.
Sociology, Rural.
Middle West > Rural conditions.
Middle West > Economic conditions.
Middle West > Social conditions > 20th century.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions rurales.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions économiques.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Middle West.
midwesterners, rural landscape, farming in the midwest, regional melting pot.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A landscape transformed: ecosystems and natural resources in the Midwest / James A. Pritchard
  • Ecology, economy, labor: the Midwestern farm landscape since 1945 / Kendra Smith-Howard
  • Beyond the Rust Bowl: the neglected history of the rural Midwest's industrialization after World War II / Wilson J. Warren
  • Midwestern rural communities in the Post-World War II era / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora
  • Uneasy dependency: rural and farm policy and the Midwest since 1945 / J.L. Anderson
  • Farmwomen in the Midwest since 1945 / Jenny Barker Devine
  • Childhood in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
  • "The whitest of occupations"? African-Americans in the rural Midwest, 1940-2010 / Debra A. Reid
  • Hispanics in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Jim Norris
  • Internal alternate: the Midwestern Amish since 1945 / Steven D. Reschly
  • Conclusion: the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / David Danbom.

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