Down and Out on the Family Farm
Subtitle: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945 (Our Sustainable Future)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780803271050
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history: from c 1900 -; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; Rural Sociology; Economic History - 20th Century; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science; History - U.S; Sociology - Rural; Sociology; South Dakota; Rural development; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Farms, Small; United States - 20th Century; Family farms; Government policy; Great Plains
Description: "Focusing on the Great Plains States of Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota between 1929 and 1945, Down and Out on the Family Farm examines the small family farmers and the rural rehabilitation program designed to help them. Historian Michael Johnston Grant reveals the tension between economic forces that favored large-scale agriculture and political pressure that championed family farms, and the end results.".

"Grant provides extensive, primary source research from government documents, as well as letters, newspaper editorial, and case studies that focus on individual lives and fortunes. He examines who these families were and what their farms looked like, and he sheds light on the health problems and other personal concerns that interfered with the economic viability of many farms. The result is a provocative study that gives a human face to the hardships and triumphs of modern agriculture."--BOOK JACKET.