Author: John J. Fry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135475288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920
Author: John J. Fry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135475288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135475288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
Boy Power
Author: United States Boys' Working Reserve
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Childhood on the Farm
Author: Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700635181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Bulletin
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The Chenango County Farm and Home Bureau News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Kimball's Dairy Farmer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Better Roads and Streets
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Annual Report of the Illinois Farmers' Institute
Author: Illinois Farmers' Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
SYSTEM ON THE FARM A MANAGEMENT PLAN
Author: PAUL HACKETT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002882859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002882859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description