Author: Douglas Slaybaugh
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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During the farm credit crisis brought on by the Great Depression, Myers served in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal government, writing the legislation to consolidate federal farm credit programs. After a brief stint as deputy governor, he became governor of the Farm Credit Administration in 1933. Myers led the agency to two great successes: saving thousands of farms from bankruptcy and establishing a permanent, government-sponsored credit system for farmers comparable to what private banks provided industry. Myers returned to Cornell in 1938 and served for nearly fifteen years as dean of the College of Agriculture. Myers also served on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, which was instituting agricultural research programs that would enable developing nations to become more productive, self-reliant, and anticommunist members of the global community.
Author: Richard S. Kirkendall
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Founder of Wallaces' Farmer, adviser to Theodore Roosevelt, and consultant to Iowa State College, Uncle Henry Wallace - perhaps more than any writer since Jefferson - spoke of rural society in terms of its significant role in the success of the American democratic vision. This book fills a gap in the history of Midwestern agriculture and the influence of the farm press.
Author: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region’s past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers—and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.
Author: Paul B. Thompson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429714955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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This book examines the rationale for emphasizing productivity as the dominant goal of agricultural research and challenges in the form of alternative goals that scientists might seek in performing agricultural research. It presents bibliographic essays that review the criticisms of research.
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: James M. Henslin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317943821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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This is Volume II of a bibliography of works on the homelessness and is dedicated to the many homeless people who discussed their situation during the author's research across the United States.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Ronald Warren Walker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026195
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: David B. Danbom
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Combining mastery of existing scholarship with a fresh approach to new material, Born in the Country continues to define the field of American rural history.
