From Prairie to Corn Belt : Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century （2ND）

Bogue, Allan G.

Ivan R Dee, Inc（2011/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781566638791
• DDC分類 338.109773

Full Description

Beginning in 1820, settlers broke the tall grass prairies of mid-America. By the 1870s they had begun to use the term "Corn Belt" to describe much of the region. In From Prairie to Corn Belt, Allan G. Bogue chronicles this remarkable transformation and challenges the view that the post-Civil War period constituted thirty years of unrelieved agricultural depression. His book remains the only study of Midwestern agricultural development that focuses on the farmers themselves, the entire range of production problems they had to solve on their land, and the diversity of their responses.

Contents

Preface to the Reprint Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction: The Land Lies Waiting
Chapter 1: The People Come
Chapter 2: They Take the Land
Chapter 3: "Free Land" Is Not Free
Chapter 4: Farms on the Breaking
Chapter 5: The Passing of the Lean Kine
Chapter 6: The Lesser Beasts and Draft Stock
Chapter 7: The Crops in the Field
Chapter 8: How to Farm Siting Down
Chapter 9: Three Production Costs: Money, Labor, Taxes
Chapter 10: Some Are Innovators
Chapter 11: They Call It the Corn Belt
Chapter 12: Farmers in the New Settlements
Chapter 13: The Farmer in the "Old" Community
Conclusion: The Threshold of the Golden Age