Rural America
By: edited by Suzanne Fremon and Morrow Wilson.
Contributors: Fremon, Suzanne Strait.; Wilson, Morrow.
Series: The Reference shelf ;; v. 48, no. 3
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Country life -- United States -- History.; United States -- Rural conditions.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 201-206.
Table of contents: title: The nineteenth century picture: De Tocqueville, A. The American wilderness. De Tocqueville, A. Life in the wilderness. Thoreau, H. D. Experiment in homesteading. Twain, M. Growing up in Missouri. Twain, M. Mississippi River pilots. Moore, T. E. Peddlers. Rourke, C. Traveling players. Garland, H. Life on an Iowa farm. Opening up Oklahoma.; title: The twentieth century picture: Wilson, C. M. American peasants. Wilson, C. M. Law makers and breakers. Allen, F. A. When the farms blew away. Lerner, M. The way of the farmer. Lerner, M. The decline of the small town. Brogan, D. W. Political influence of the farm bloc. Black, R. C. The American farmer. Our first "hybrid." Walsh, J. U.S. agribusiness and agricultural trends.; title: Shifting patterns in rural areas: Ellis, W. N. The new ruralism. Logsdon, G. America's rural poor. Terkel, S. Working the land. Terkel, S. Second chance.