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Book

The rural Midwest since World War II

Call Number

  • H 977 R9486 (CEN)

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Publication Information

DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, [2014]

Physical Description

xii, 323 pages ; 23 cm

Contents

  • A landscape transformed: ecosystems and natural resources in the Midwest / James A. Pritchard
  • Ecology, economy, labor: the Midwestern farm landscape since 1945 / Kendra Smith-Howard
  • Beyond the Rust Bowl: the neglected history of the rural Midwest's industrialization after World War II / Wilson J. Warren
  • Midwestern rural communities in the Post-World War II era / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora
  • Uneasy dependency: rural and farm policy and the Midwest since 1945 / J.L. Anderson
  • Farmwomen in the Midwest since 1945 / Jenny Barker Devine
  • Childhood in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
  • "The whitest of occupations"? African-Americans in the rural Midwest, 1940-2010 / Debra A. Reid
  • Hispanics in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Jim Norris
  • Internal alternate: the Midwestern Amish since 1945 / Steven D. Reschly
  • Conclusion: the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / David Danbom.

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J L Anderson