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Author | : Merilee Serrill Grindle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
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What is responsible for the persistence of underdevelopment in rural Latin America? Merilee S. Grindle analyzes the role of public policies in stimulating agrarian change in Latin America from 1940 to 1980.
Author | : Catherine McNicol Stock |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801487712 |
This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century.
Author | : Catherine McNicol Stock |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501717731 |
"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside major metropolitan areas. Moreover, rural economic activity—agricultural, extractive, recreational, and industrial—has an enormous impact on the nation's overall economic well-being. The stories of contemporary rural people still have the power to move us.... They reflect the values, dreams, and ideals at the core of the economically, racially, and ethnically diverse American experience." The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors examine African American progressive farm organizers; the experiences of Caribbean and Mexican farm laborers; agrarian intellectuals in the New Deal; the politics of land and landscape in the Rocky Mountain west; and the origins of today's rural political movements.
Author | : Chris Rasmussen |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609383575 |
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state's central institution, event, and symbol. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair's founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair's founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people's desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise--not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.
Author | : David A. Neiwert |
Publisher | : Washington State University Press |
Total Pages | : 679 |
Release | : 2021-09-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1636820751 |
Rather than simply demonizing or directing outrage at Patriot and militia organizations, as some recent high-visibility publications have done, David Neiwert takes the approach of allowing Patriot extremists to speak for themselves and largely on their own terms. His critical journalistic dialogue allows us to better understand the social, economic, philosophical, and religious complexities of how and why these people have come to think the way they do. There is no question that strains of racism, paranoia, ill-will, and even evilness can characterize many of these people, but it is equally true that they--often minimally educated, and economically and socially challenged by the changing times--are desperately responding to feelings of having been marginalized, and even disenfranchised, from the American dream. Neiwert’s comprehensive manuscript presents an overview of the multitude of Patriot organizations and beliefs found in the Northwest today. Neiwert feels it is essential to maintain some kind of dialogue with Patriots because, after all, these people are our neighbors and relatives, and they are here to stay.
Author | : Colin Woodard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143122029 |
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.
Author | : Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Country life |
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Author | : William Chapman White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) |
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Author | : Roy Willard Meyer |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873512664 |
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781574886412 |
By intelligence officials for intelligent people