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 communit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Iowa > History > 20th century.
Farm tenancy > Economic aspects > Iowa > History > 20th century.
Farmers > Iowa > Economic conditions.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Agriculture > Economic aspects.
Economic history.
Farm tenancy > Economic aspects.
Farmers > Economic conditions.
Iowa > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Iowa.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The go-go seventies
  • From fencerow to fencerow to failure: 1979-1983
  • The year of realization: 1983
  • From penny auctions to a declaration of emergency: 1985
  • From fears of violence to glimmers of hope: 1986
  • From crisis to chronic: 1987-1993
  • Epilogue: last-generation farmers.

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