A collection of readings across disciplines on life in rural America and the role of rural people and places in the economic life of the country, emphasizing the differences between rural and agricult
In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually tr
Throughout most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom’s Born in the Country was the first—and still the only—general history of rural America. R
Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultu
Explores the lives of young Native Americans on rural reservations in the United States and in Canadian First Nation communities, discussing such topics as art, education, sports, traditions, and beli
