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Author | : J. M. Opal |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780812240627 |
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged. Beyond the Farm blends biography, social history, and cultural history to describe and explain that change.
Author | : J. M. Opal |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812203453 |
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition became a civic project—a concerted reply to the localism of provincial life. By thus attaching itself to the national self-image during the early years of the Republic, before the wrenching upheavals of the Industrial Revolution, ambitious striving achieved a cultural dominance that future generations took for granted. Beyond the Farm not only describes this transformation as a national effort but also explores it as a personal journey. Centered on the lives of six aspiring men from the New England countryside, the book follows them from youthful days full of hope and unrest to eventual careers marked by surprising success and crushing failure. Along the way, J. M. Opal recovers such intimate dramas as a young man's abandonment by his self-made parents, a village printer's dreams of small-town fame, and a headstrong boy's efforts to both surpass and honor his family. By relating the vast abstractions of nation and ambition to the everyday milieus of home, work, and school, Beyond the Farm reconsiders the roots of American individualism in vivid detail and moral complexity.
Author | : Dr. Bill Bass |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0061366986 |
A forensic anthropologist tracks the field's increasing sophistication as reflected by cases throughout his career, describing such newer technologies as DNA processing and electron microscopy, and examining past cases in which new developments proved pivotal.
Author | : Beth Hoffman |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 164283159X |
"Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
Author | : George J. Zeller |
Publisher | : Infinity Publishing |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2010-07-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0741490315 |
Life on a farm in the 1940s meant hard work, and for the Zellers, it also meant turmoil, as my father's cold, harsh rule had a profound effect on my brother, my sister and me. Then our wonderful mother fell victim to a mysterious illness. Years later, hap
Author | : Rebecca Thistlethwaite |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1603584382 |
Do you want to make your farm more dynamic, profitable, and-- above all-- sustainable? Thistlethwaite introduces readers to some of the country's most innovative farmers, in order to help you build a triple-bottom-line farming business focused on economic viability, social justice, and ecological soundness.
Author | : Thomas Weston Fels |
Publisher | : Rural Science Institute |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This author reassesses the lives of the anti-establishment, countercultural 1960s generation beginning with the back-to-the-land communes of the late 1960s to the present, as this generation relocated to more urban settings. It examines how much idealism "baby boomers" retained as they were pulled into mainstream life
Author | : John A. Malecha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Clare West |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : 9780194228374 |
A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.
Author | : Wendell Minor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399257993 |
Here’s a perfect introduction to our farm friends. Is there anything cuter than a little lamb or playful piglet? Farm animals are fascinating, and they are full of surprises, too. Naturally, cows make milk—but did you know they need to drink a bathtub-full of water every day? And of course the turkeys gobble—but sometimes they purr like cats. Wendell Minor’s bright, bold artwork and jaunty verse celebrate the wonders of our farm friends.