Author: Jerry L. Twedt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This memoir is a light-hearted social history of life in Story County during the 1940s. The decade of the 40s witnessed the death of small, family farms and the birth of agribusiness, the end of the Industrial Age and the beginning of the Computer Age, and the first faltering steps of television. It was a time of great trauma, yet for a boy growing up on farms near Roland, Iowa, the decade was filled with tranquillity and fun. Growing Up in the 40s reveals a decade with one foot firmly planted in rural small-town America and the other poised to step into the urban atomic age. It was a time when family values seemed as permanent as the great Iowa barns - a time that is now as remote as Scarlet O'Hara's antebellum South.
Author: John Walker Ord
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleveland (England : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Author: Kenneth J. Bindas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813030487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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This collection of more than 600 oral histories recalls the Great Depression and provides a rich personal chronicle of the 1930s. The Depression altered the basic structure of American society and changed the way government, business, and the American people interacted. Capturing this historical era and its meaning, the stories in Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South reflect the general despair of the people, but they also reveal the hope many found through the New Deal.
Author: Thomas Frost
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Yingshi Yu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781621966968
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
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"A leading authority in Chinese Studies and hailed as the most important living Chinese historian of our times, Professor Ying-shih Yu received the John W. Kluge Prize for achievement in the Study of Humanity in 2006 and the first Tang Prize international award in Sinology in 2014. These awards represent a recognition of his more than sixty-year contribution to the fields of Chinese history, thought, politics, and culture during which he published more than thirty books, forty-one monographs, and hundreds of articles. Over the years his works have had great influence throughout the Chinese-language world where he has been hailed as a paradigm of Chinese humanism. The book covers Professor Yü's life and times from his childhood in rural China to his tenure as a professor at Harvard University, with relevant discussions of later events. This book is an invaluable record of a history of our times, witnessing the cultural, political, and social transformations of what Professor Yu notes as the period of most violent turmoil and social upheaval in modern Chinese history. His record of this complex period is now made accessible to English-language readers with this book."--
Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743211994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.
Author: Carroll Engelhardt
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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"Carroll Engelhardt brings us into the world of his fourth-generation farm family, who lived by the family- and faith-based work ethic and concern for respectability they inherited from their German and Norwegian ancestors. The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life of the 1940s and 1950s."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Carol Bodensteiner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979799709
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the middle of America in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres.
Author: William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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