Author: Merwin Robert SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The American Country Life Movement, 1900-1940
Author: Merwin Robert SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Country Life Movement in America, 1900-1920
Author: William L. BowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Country-life Movement in the United States
Author: Liberty Hyde BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The American Country Life Movement, 1900-1940
Author: Merwin Robert SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Proceedings of the Conference of the American Country Life Association
Author: American Country Life AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Country Life Book List
Author: American Country Life AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Revolution Down on the Farm
Author: Paul K. ConkinPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081313868X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained a population of 6.5 billion; now, commercial and industrial agriculture ensure that millions will not die from starvation. Farmers are able to feed an exponentially growing planet because the greatest industrial revolution in history has occurred in agriculture since 1929, with U.S. farmers leading the way. Productivity on American farms has increased tenfold, even as most small farmers and tenants have been forced to find other work. Today, only 300,000 farms produce approximately ninety percent of the total output, and overproduction, largely subsidized by government programs and policies, has become the hallmark of modern agriculture. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 charts the profound changes in farming that have occurred during author Paul K. Conkin's lifetime. His personal experiences growing up on a small Tennessee farm complement compelling statistical data as he explores America's vast agricultural transformation and considers its social, political, and economic consequences. He examines the history of American agriculture, showing how New Deal innovations evolved into convoluted commodity programs following World War II. Conkin assesses the skills, new technologies, and government policies that helped transform farming in America and suggests how new legislation might affect farming in decades to come. Although the increased production and mechanization of farming has been an economic success story for Americans, the costs are becoming increasingly apparent. Small farmers are put out of business when they cannot compete with giant, non-diversified corporate farms. Caged chickens and hogs in factory-like facilities or confined dairy cattle require massive amounts of chemicals and hormones ultimately ingested by consumers. Fertilizers, new organic chemicals, manure disposal, and genetically modified seeds have introduced environmental problems that are still being discovered. A Revolution Down on the Farm concludes with an evaluation of farming in the twenty-first century and a distinctive meditation on alternatives to our present large scale, mechanized, subsidized, and fossil fuel and chemically dependent system.
Born in the Country
Author: David B. DanbomPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421423359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Ultimately, he asks whether a distinctive style of rural life exists any longer.
Proceedings of the ... Conference of the American Country Life Association, Inc
Author: American Country Life Association. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Full-Orbed Christianity
Author: Nancy ChristiePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773513973
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
They also explore the instrumental role of Protestant clergymen in formulating social legislation and transforming the scope and responsibilities of the modern state.