The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color TV. The embattled farmers, accompanied by their advocates, stood holding off bankers and sheriffs wielding foreclosure notices. In this new book, using findings from interviews and participant observation, agricultural historian Mark Friedberger peels away the emotion and rhetoric of the save the family farm movement to provide a realistic picture of what happened in on important farm state. Shake-out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s depicts the farm crisis of the 1980s in all its complexity, providing a useful corrective to popular accounts. Friedberger\u27s approach and his focus on individuals present the problem in Ameri...
The stereotypical Iowa farm woman in the twentieth century stayed in the house, cooking and doing ho...
The farm crisis in the Upper Midwest in the mid-1980s created financial distress that has deeply aff...
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study pai...
The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and...
Review of: Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America. Friedberger, Mark
The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world,...
Review of: American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis. Barlett, Peggy F
Review of: The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event. Winebrenner, Hugh
Review of: The American Farm Crisis: An Annotated Bibliography. Rogers, Earl M. and Rogers, Susan H
The farm crisis of the 1980s was one of the defining American moments of the late twentieth century....
Review of: The Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural La...
Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized arou...
Review of: Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past and Present. Gelfand, Lawrence E. and Neymeyer...
This thesis examines the farm crisis of the 1980s, by beginning with the ideology underlying the far...
For almost two centuries, white American farmers held a privileged status both as the power behind A...
The stereotypical Iowa farm woman in the twentieth century stayed in the house, cooking and doing ho...
The farm crisis in the Upper Midwest in the mid-1980s created financial distress that has deeply aff...
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study pai...
The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and...
Review of: Farm Families and Change in Twentieth-Century America. Friedberger, Mark
The farm family is a unique institution, perhaps the last remnant, in an increasingly complex world,...
Review of: American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis. Barlett, Peggy F
Review of: The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event. Winebrenner, Hugh
Review of: The American Farm Crisis: An Annotated Bibliography. Rogers, Earl M. and Rogers, Susan H
The farm crisis of the 1980s was one of the defining American moments of the late twentieth century....
Review of: The Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural La...
Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized arou...
Review of: Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past and Present. Gelfand, Lawrence E. and Neymeyer...
This thesis examines the farm crisis of the 1980s, by beginning with the ideology underlying the far...
For almost two centuries, white American farmers held a privileged status both as the power behind A...
The stereotypical Iowa farm woman in the twentieth century stayed in the house, cooking and doing ho...
The farm crisis in the Upper Midwest in the mid-1980s created financial distress that has deeply aff...
The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study pai...