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Author:

Wuthnow, Robert.

Title:

Remaking the heartland : Middle America since the 1950s / Robert Wuthnow.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 358 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Middle West--Economic conditions.
Middle West--Social conditions.
Agriculture--Middle West.
Social change--Middle West.
Community development--Middle West.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Middle West.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Here in the middle -- Recovering from the Great Depression -- Reinventing the rustic life -- Education in Middle America -- The decline of small communities -- The changing face of agribusiness -- From towns to sprawling suburbs.

Summary:

Studies the fifty years starting in the 1950s in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

ISBN:

069114611X (hardback : alk. paper)
9780691146119 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)587249062

LCCN:

2010021518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)