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Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life: 1840-1940 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher
Publisher : Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
ISBN 13 : 9780911124347
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life written by Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher and published by Harrisburg : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip S. Klein
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027103839X
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Pennsylvania written by Philip S. Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 605 pages
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life, 1640-1840 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher
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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life written by Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life: 1840-1940 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally McMurry
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983060
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pennsylvania Farming written by Sally McMurry and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania's history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in more than sixty years, and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly economic approach and considers the diverse forces that helped shape the farming landscape, from physical factors to cultural repertoires to labor systems. Above all, the people who created and worked on Pennsylvania's farms are placed at the center of attention. More than 150 photographs inform the interpretation, which offers a sweeping look at the evolution of Pennsylvania's agricultural landscapes right up to the present day.
Author : David Walbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348927
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Garden Spot written by David Walbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history. The area has attracted visitors eager to catch a glimpse of the distinctive religious community of the Old Order Amish, to appreciate the beauty of the farmland, to enjoy the abundant and delicious food of the Pennsylvania Dutch...and, most recently, to shop at the area's outlet malls. For nearly three hundred years, Lancaster county has been a model of agricultural prosperity, rooted in the family farm. The rural character of the place remains Lancaster's predominant tourist attraction, but is at odds with its rapidly rising population and the commercial and residential growth that has brought. It is the tension between rural tradition, progress, and urbanization that lies at the core of Garden Spot. David Walbert examines how twentieth century American culture has come to define and appreciate rurality, and how growth and economic expansion can co-exist with preservation of the traditional ways of life in the region. Will small farms fail in a culture that has increasingly come to value productivity over quality of life? What impact will further development have on maintaining this region's character? Can rurality and progress co-exist in the 21st century? A vivid portrayal of the land and people, residents and outsiders alike, Garden Spot narrates the history of this region and considers the challenges Lancaster County and its people face in order to preserve their unique place.
Author : Roger L. Williams
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090472
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State written by Roger L. Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
