Author: Henry BestonPublisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783886572
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author recounts the seasons of farm life and describes the relationship between the farmer and the land.
Northern Farm
Author: Henry BestonPublisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783886572
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author recounts the seasons of farm life and describes the relationship between the farmer and the land.
The Northern Farm
Author: Henry BestonPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805030921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebec farm ... in truly beautiful prose ( Kirkus Reviews ). Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring, and the quiet green of an early summer morning, Beston brings the reader into an inescapable alliance with the natural world. He translates the philosophy of the Maine farmer into terms as applicable in Manhattan as on the Kennebec. One of the great classics of American nature writing, Northern Farm is inspiring reading and ranks as one of Beston's most memorable and lyrical works.
Notes on Northern Farms and Farming
Author: John WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Winter Feeding of Wild Life on Northern Farm, by Wallace B. Grange,...
Author: Wallace B. GrangeThe British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
Author: James L. HustonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Drawing on the history of the British gentry to explain the contrasting sentiments of American small farmers and plantation owners, James L. Huston's expansive analysis offers a new understanding of the socioeconomic factors that fueled sectionalism and ignited the American Civil War. This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Rather, Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-56 and the birth of a sectionalized party system. Huston shows that over 70 percent of the northern population-by far the dominant economic and social element-had close ties to agriculture. More invested in egalitarianism and personal competency than in capitalism, small farmers in the North operated under a free labor ideology that emphasized the ideals of independence and mastery over oneself. The ideology of the plantation, by contrast, reflected the conservative ethos of the British aristocracy, which was the product of immense landed inequality and the assertion of mastery over others. By examining the dominant populations in northern and southern congressional districts, Huston reveals that economic interests pitted the plantation South against the small-farm North. The northern shift toward Republicanism depended on farmers, not industrialists: While Democrats won the majority of northern farm congressional districts from 1842 to 1853, they suffered a major defection of these districts from 1854 to 1856, to the antislavery organizations that would soon coalesce into the Republican Party. Utilizing extensive historical research and close examination of the voting patterns in congressional districts across the country, James Huston provides a remarkable new context for the origins of the Civil War.
The Northern Home Front of the Civil War
Author: Roberta BaxterPublisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1432939173
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Describes life in the northern United States during the Civil War, discussing life on farms, plantations, and in cities and the roles played by women, children, and slaves.
Atlas of the Civil War
Author: Steven E. WoodworthPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195221311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
From two esteemed Civil War historians comes an unparalleled portrait of the war that altered the foundation of America. Pithy text is accented by black and white photography and illustrations that bring key characters and settings to life.
Farms and Farm People
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Architecture of Country-Houses; Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-houses, and Villas ... With ... Illustrations
Author: Andrew Jackson DOWNINGPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Social Status and Farm Tenure
Author: Edgar Albert SchulerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description