Down and Out on the Family Farm - Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945

Informationen zum Autor Michael Johnston Grant has a Ph.D. in history. He works for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Klappentext Focusing on Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, Grant examines small family farmers and the Rural Rehabilitation Program designed to help them. He reveals the tension between economic forces that favored large-scale agriculture and political pressure that championed family farms, and the results of that clash. Zusammenfassung Examines the lower to middle-income family farmers and the rural rehabilitation program designed to help them. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Borderline Farmers 2. Farm Tenancy in the Great Plains 3. The Development of Rural Rehabilitation 4. "Rehabbers" in the Great Plains 5. Farming in Place 6. Politics! War! and the Downfall of the fsa Conclusion; Notes; Sources; Index

Product details

• Authors: Michael Johnston Grant
• Assisted by: Cornelia Flora (Editor), Charles A Francis (Editor), Charles A. Francis (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780803271050
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7105-0
• No. of pages: 233
• Series: Our Sustainable Future; Our Sustainable Future
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous