American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.

List of contents

Introduction
Posing with Metal
Chapter 1
Setting the Stage: The Genealogy of Contemporary Rural Identity in the Midwest
Chapter 2
"Are We Ready for This?": Urban Industrialism, Rural Resistance, and Rural-Urban Conflict
Chapter 3
"The Future of an Idea": Farmer's Use of Technology to Perform Rural Capitalistic Modernity
Chapter 4
"Mother and Radio": Combatting Urban Gender Stereotypes through Technology Use
Chapter 5
Rumbling Down Main Street: Cold War Ideology and the "American Way" Encouraging Rural Capitalistic Modernity
Chapter 6
"We Feed the World": Rural Globalized Ultramodernity
Chapter 7
"The District of Hicks": Persistent Urban Views of Farmers as Backward
Chapter 8
"Inborn Innovators" or "Hog House Janitors?": The Acceptance or Rejection of Technologies and Rural Globalized Ultramodernity
Chapter 9
"Company in the Combine": Gender, Farming, and Comparing Organic Reformist and Rural Ultramodern Identities
Chapter 10
"There They Go Again": Understanding Clashes Between Ultramodern Farmers and Organic Advocates Over Food Policy and Reform
Conclusion
Does it Still Run?

About the author

Joshua T. Brinkman is Adjunct Professor of History at Elon University and Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, USA. His work examines how technology and identity shape one another as well as energy, environmental, and agricultural law and policy. He is a contributing author in the Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions.

Summary

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua T. Brinkman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032637945
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263794-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, HISTORY / United States / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, United States of America, USA, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Agricultural science, Agribusiness and primary industries, Agricultural engineering and machinery, Agricultural Engineering & Machinery, Primary industries