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Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland
ISBN: 9780807845264 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law, ' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925.
Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of the... Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law, ' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or...
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166,52 |
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Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest
ISBN: 9780807845530 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance and that ultimately determines how land tenure and the personality of rural communities evolve.
Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechani...
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186,11 |
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Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930
ISBN: 9780807846599 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continuity. Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Reformers and professionals sought to centralize authority and diminish local control over such important aspects of rural...
Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and indus...
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186,11 |
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Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest
ISBN: 9780807846957 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the region's development, says Deborah Fink. Focusing on the porkpacking industry in Iowa, Fink investigates the experience of the rural working class and highlights its significance in shaping the state's economic, political, and social contours.
Fink draws both on interviews and on her own firsthand experience working on the production floor of a pork-processing plant. She weaves a fascinating account of the meatpacking industry's history in... The nostalgic vision of a rural Midwest populated by independent family farmers hides the reality that rural wage labor has been integral to the regio...
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215,50 |
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Rural Athens Under the Democracy
ISBN: 9780812237740 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth centuries B.C. "This superb work belongs in the libraries of all universities. Essential."--Choice Much of the evidence--literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial--from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its lifestyle, preoccupations, and attitude. In Rural...
The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth cen...
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303,66 |
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Against All Odds : Rural Community In The Information Age
ISBN: 9780813388427 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors' model orients this community in the vortex of contemporary forces, pointing up, for example, the need for face-to-face interaction among residents versus the larger society's demand for electronic communication. With increasing conflicts between the culture of rural communities and that of the outside world occurring, small towns all over the United States are losing their businesses, their doctors, and their sense of community. Yet the town described in this study is thriving.Against All Odds identifies pride, determination, and a sense of belonging that must be...
The authors' model orients this community in the vortex of contemporary forces, pointing up, for example, the need for face-to-face interaction among ...
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181,17 |
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Letters from the Country
ISBN: 9780816633227 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally published in Minnesota Monthly. This contemporary classic welcomes readers to the small town of Madison, Minnesota (population 2,242), a rural community struggling to place itself in the new American landscape.
Letters from the Country, one of Bly's best-known and best-loved books, is a collection of essays as fresh today as when they were originally publishe...
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Dreamworlds of Alabama
ISBN: 9780816650347 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I speak in what others often hear as a strange accent. My past can't be located. I live in Buffalo, New York, an exile from the South. But these aren't Yankee dreams, even though my past seems like a fabrication, a dreamworld in which I'm a paper character and not a historical participant, with scars from barbed wire ripping under the pressure and flying through the air like a swarm of bees, or a horse rearing up and banging its head into mine from within, exploding my forehead." --from the Preface
Wisteria draped on a soldier's coffin, sent home to Alabama from a Virginia... "I speak in what others often hear as a strange accent. My past can't be located. I live in Buffalo, New York, an exile from the South. But these a... |
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88,44 |
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They Live on the Land: Life in an Open Country Southern Community
ISBN: 9780817305871 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming settlement. Hailed as the most intensive case study ever made in the South, the book provides a detailed portrait of southern rural life on the verge of extinction."
"—Florida Historical Quarterly" "One of the finest examples of the genre of the community survey. . . The book is remarkably free of special pleading. And every chapter is paced with fascinating data and insights. The University of Alabama Prss is to be congratulated for... "First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming sett...
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156,72 |
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Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest
ISBN: 9780821413470 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was urban, industrial, and economically interdependent. Midwestern commercial farmers found themselves at the heart of these changes. Their actions and reactions led to the formation of a distinctive and particularly democratic consumer ethos, which is still being played out today.
By focusing on the consumer behavior of midwestern farmers, "Sowing the American Dream" provides illustrative examples of... From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from...
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328,15 |
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Sowing the American Dream: How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest
ISBN: 9780821413487 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was urban, industrial, and economically interdependent. Midwestern commercial farmers found themselves at the heart of these changes. Their actions and reactions led to the formation of a distinctive and particularly democratic consumer ethos, which is still being played out today.
By focusing on the consumer behavior of midwestern farmers, "Sowing the American Dream" provides illustrative examples of... From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from...
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117,50 |
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Small Town
ISBN: 9780823223572 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred Kazin, and others, he shaped the cultural landscape of 20th-century America. In 1946 Hicks published Small Town, a portrait of life in the rural crossroads of Grafton, N.Y., where he had moved after being fired from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for his left-wing political views. In this book, he combines a kind of hand-crafted ethnographic research with personal reflections on the qualities of small town life that were being threatened by...
Granville Hicks was one of America's most influential literary and social critics. Along with Malcolm Cowley, F. O. Matthiessen, Max Eastman, Alfred K...
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166,52 |
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Hollybush: Folk Building Social Change
ISBN: 9780870498169 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Appalachian community of Hollybush, first settled in 1881, grew to a population of some 150 people on thirty farm sites. Charles Martin shows that its abandonment in 1960 resulted from technological change, which brought social upheaval manifested in the region's now-vanished architecture. Martin's analysis makes innovative use of the techniques of oral history and material culture. The essential data incorporated within the building survey document the physical displacement that occurred in the community as it attempted to switch from an agrarian to an industrial system. The author...
The Appalachian community of Hollybush, first settled in 1881, grew to a population of some 150 people on thirty farm sites. Charles Martin shows that...
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Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets of the Amish Farm
ISBN: 9780873388238 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating look at life in a separatist society "Laced with humor and delight, this intriguing account provides first-time glimpses into daily life on Amish farms."-- Donald Kraybill In Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of the Amish Farm, Randy James offers an engaging view of Amish farm life, society, and values. An agricultural extension agent for twenty years, James works closely with the Amish farmers of Geauga County, Ohio, the fourth largest Amish settlement in the world, and his narrative provides new, accurate information on the Amish and... A fascinating look at life in a separatist society "Laced with humor and delight, this intriguing account provides first-time glimp... |
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Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change
ISBN: 9780877229773 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on the citizen resistance and struggle in Appalachia since 1960.
Focuses on the citizen resistance and struggle in Appalachia since 1960.
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137,09 |
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The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust
ISBN: 9780877459309 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An economic and social history of South Dakota s west river country in the 1920s and 1930s is told largely through the settlers own words. Reprint.
An economic and social history of South Dakota s west river country in the 1920s and 1930s is told largely through the settlers own words. Reprint. |
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113,16 |
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Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts
ISBN: 9780896802346 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic. Communities of Work focuses on the ways in which rural people and places are affected by political, social, and economic forces far outside their control and how they sustain themselves and their communities in response.
Bringing together the two fundamental concepts of community where the relationships and practices of daily life occur and work, in which an elementary exchange occurs, Communities of Work bridges several fields of study. Presented... The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic. Communities of Wor...
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137,09 |
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Rural Reminiscences: The Agony of Survival
ISBN: 9781557532640 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural Reminiscences is a poignant record of one family's survival during depressed economic times. It also details the management of a highly diversified farm operation that was changing from horsepower on the hoof to under the hood. It explains and describes the operation of farm machinery powered by draft horses and the frustrations farmers experienced as they tried to adapt to the internal combustion engine.
Rural Reminiscences is a poignant record of one family's survival during depressed economic times. It also details the management of a highly diversif...
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83,21 |
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Themes in Rural History of the Western World
ISBN: 9781557532756 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a number of disciplines, nine scholars examine the major issues addressed by rural history.
Drawing on a number of disciplines, nine scholars examine the major issues addressed by rural history.
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210,60 |
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Focus on Migration
ISBN: 9781559389983 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This seventh volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.
This seventh volume in the series covers a variety of topics in research in rural sociology and development.
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753,34 |
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