River, Reaper, Rail : Agriculture and Identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 /

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River, Reaper, Rail: Agriculture and Identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 tells the story of farmers and technology in Ohio's Champaign County and its Mad River Valley from the beginnings of white settlement in 1795 through the decades after the Civil War. This is a story of land...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thoresen, Timothy H. H. (Timothy Hans Hale), 1944- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Akron : The University of Akron Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Agriculture.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / General
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science
Agriculture > Ohio > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Agriculture > Ohio > History > 19th century.
Ohio > Mad River.
Ohio.
Mad (Ohio : Riviere)
Mad River (Ohio)
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The land
  • The people and their culture
  • Claiming the land, and settling in
  • Traditions and revisions
  • The transportation problem
  • Making do, with roads and without
  • New connections, new directions
  • Urbana
  • The prospect of a railroad
  • Changing prospects
  • Reapers
  • Improving the land
  • Organizing for improvement: an agricultural society
  • Geography, generation, and gender: Union Township, 1860
  • Adaptive diversity
  • The relevance of horses
  • Making sense of civil war
  • Distant fields
  • Common ground.

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