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Title:

The rural Midwest since World War II / edited by J.L. Anderson ; foreword by R. Douglas Hurt.

Publisher:

NIU Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Middle West--Rural conditions.
Middle West--Economic conditions.
Middle West--Social conditions--20th century.
Agriculture--Middle West--History--20th century.
Sociology, Rural--Middle West.
History.

Other Authors:

Anderson, J. L. (Joseph Leslie), 1966- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / ecosystems and natural resources in the Midwest / David Danbom. Ecology, economy, labor : the Midwestern farm landscape since 1945 / Kendra Smith-Howard -- Beyond the Rust Belt : the neglected history of the rural Midwest's industrialization after World War II / Wilson J. Warren -- Midwestern rural communities in the Post-WW II era to 2000 / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- Uneasy dependency : rural and farm policy and the Midwest since 1945 / J.L. Anderson -- Farmwomen in the Midwest since 1945 / Jenny Barker Devine -- Childhood in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- "The whitest of occupations"? African-Americans in the rural Midwest, 1940-2010 / Debra A. Reid -- Hispanics in the Midwest since World War II / Jim Norris -- Internal alternate : the Midwestern Amish since 1945 / Steven D. Reschly -- Conclusion : the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / David Danbom.

ISBN:

0875806945 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780875806945 (pbk : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842307620

LCCN:

2013017744

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)