Ox cart to automobile
Subtitle: social change in Western New York
By: Thomas Rasmussen
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780761845881
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social change; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pp. 183-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Organizing ideas: central place and prisoner's dilemma; title: Distance, elevation and early settlement decisions; title: Making farms and raising crops 1810-1850; title: The Western New York farm at mid-century; title: Dairy farming, commerce and rural industry 1865-1900; title: The automobile and rural decline: 1900-1950; title: Life in a barely agricultural Western New York: 1950-present.