Author: Harvey Lewis CarterPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Rural Indiana in Transition, 1850-1860
Author: Harvey Lewis CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Wetlands of the American Midwest
Author: Hugh PrincePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226682803
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. In this readable and objective account, Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes toward wetlands in the American Midwest. As attitudes changed, so did scientific research agendas, government policies, and farmers' strategies for managing their land. Originally viewed as bountiful sources of wildlife by indigenous peoples, wet areas called "wet prairies," "swamps," or "bogs" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were considered productive only when drained for agricultural use. Beginning in the 1950s, many came to see these renamed "wetlands" as valuable for wildlife and soil conservation. Prince's book will appeal to a wide readership, ranging from geographers and environmental historians to the many government and private agencies and individuals concerned with wetland research, management, and preservation.
Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850-1880
Author: Emma Lou ThornbroughPublisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871950502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
In Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880 (vol. 3, History of Indiana Series), author Emma Lou Thornbrough deals with the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Thornbrough utilized scholarly writing as well as examined basic source materials, both published and unpublished, to present a balanced account of life in Indiana during the Civil War era, with attention given to political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.
The History of Indiana: Indiana in the Civil War era, 1850-1880, by E. L. Thornbrough
Author: Agricultural History
Author: University of California, Davis. Agricultural History CenterPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural history
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Entertainment in New Albany and Madison, 1850-1860
Author: Alexandra Edwards CurryPublisher:
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Category : Madison (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings
Author: Indiana Academy of the Social SciencesPublisher:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Indiana in Transition, 1880-1920
Author: Clifton J. PhillipsPublisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871950928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
In Indiana in Transition: The Emergence of an Industrial Commonwealth, 1880–1920 (vol. 4, History of Indiana Series), author Clifton J. Phillips covers the period during which Indiana underwent political, economic, and social changes that furthered its evolution from a primarily rural-agricultural society to a predominantly urban-industrial commonwealth. The book includes a bibliography, notes, and index.
The Political Economy of the Family Farm
Author: Sue HeadleePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313389160
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that the family farm system, with its progressive nature and egalitarian class structure, revolutionized this transition to capitalism. The family farm is examined in light of its economic and political implications, showing the relationship between the family farm and fledgling industrial capitalism, a relationship that fostered the simultaneous industrial and agricultural revolutions and the creation of an agro-industrial complex. Headlee focuses on the adoption of the horse-drawn mechanical reaper (to harvest wheat) by family farmers in the 1850s. The neoclassical economic explanation, with its emphasis on the farm as a profit-maximizing firm, is criticized for its lack of recognition of the role of the family farm's egalitarian class structure. This look at the economic history of the United States has lessons for the Third World today: agricultural development is vital to the transition to capitalism; the agrarian class structures of Third World countries may be holding back that transition; and a family farm/land reform approach would lead to increases in productivity and in the material well-being of society. Headlee's analysis supports three important debates in political economy, thus providing the historical and theoretical context for understanding the role of agriculture in the transition to capitalism in general and in the particular case of the United States. Her findings conclude that agrarian class structures can explain the differential patterns of development in pre-industrial Europe. Further evidence is presented that the internal class structure of agrarian society is the crucial causal factor in the transition to capitalism and that market developments alone are not sufficient. Lastly and most controversially, Headlee acknowledges the importance of the Civil War in propelling the triumph of American capitalism, allowing the Republican Party (an alliance of family farmers and industrial capitalists) to take control of the state from the Democratic Party of the southern plantation owners. This book will be of interest to scholars in political economy, economic history, agrarian economics, and development economics.
Nature’s School
Author: Ron E. WithersPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 147596787X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Nature’s School is both the intriguing story of the rise and fall of a town because of the influence of the Wabash River and a broader observation of the significant role of water in the chronicle of American history. Peru, Indiana is usually defined by the rich circus heritage in its past, but the most significant history of the town lies in the relationship it has with the Wabash River, a story that has largely been forgotten. Nature’s School is a narrative that includes Native Americans, land speculation, the Wabash & Erie Canal, railroads, and changes in the Wabash River, weaving an absorbing tale about the settling of Peru, its destruction during the 1913 flood, and the consequences of misreading the role of humans within the natural landscape.