Visions Of American Agriculture

Author : William Lockeretz
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of American Agriculture written by William Lockeretz and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive in its scope, Visions of American Agriculture discusses the issues that confront agriculture today -- environmental degradation, declining rural communities, economic inequities, and changing national and global realities. In response to these challenges, the authors develop ideas about agriculture that preserve and refine the best of traditions, while promoting new approaches to farm life, rural communities, the food system, applications of science and technology, and enlightened policies. Concerned with the fate of individuals, families, and communities, their proposals look beyond the next farm bill and the nearest crisis to the evolving future of the nation -- a future in which agriculture, however transformed, will still be at the heart of American life.

Author : Douglas Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226317229
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Works written by Douglas Harper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The machine in the garden; The history since then.

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217485
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Farming written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economic reasons. But will they? This timely book exposes the biases in American farm policies that irrationally encourage expansion, biases evident in federal commodity programs, income tax provisions, and subsidized credit services. Family Farming also exposes internal conflicts, particularly the conflict between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interest in family farming as a whole. It challenges the assumption that bigger is better, critiques the technological basis of modern agriculture, and calls for farming practices that are ethical, economical, and ecologically sound. The alternative policies discussed in this book could yet save the family farm, and the ways and means of saving it are argued here with special urgency. ø This Bison Books edition includes a new introduction by the author providing a more national perspective, underscoring the repetitive cycles of American agriculture over the decade, and assessing the major policy issues that have dominated agriculture in recent years.

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557532817
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Agriculture written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy for the Future written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781860463723
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Visions written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119632226
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to American Agricultural History written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America’s complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: Introduces readers to a uniquely wide range of topics within the study of American agricultural history Provides a narrative summary and a critical examination of field-defining works Introduces specific topics within American agricultural history such as agrarian reform, agribusiness, and agricultural power and production Discusses the impacts of American agriculture on different groups including Native Americans, African Americans, and European, Asian, and Latinx immigrants Views the agricultural history of America through new interdisciplinary lenses of race, class, and the environment Explores depictions of American agriculture in film, popular music, literature, and art A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.

Author : Wayne David Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in the History of American Agriculture written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Lamb Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Farm Book; Or, A Compend of American Agriculture written by Richard Lamb Allen and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rural America, Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Structure of American Agriculture written by Rural America, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: