Part of a series which attempts to provide a guide to the current interpretations of the key themes of economic and social history in which advances have recently been made or in which there has been significant debate.

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change (Studies in Economic and Social History)

Business & Money

Anderson, J.L.

Economics

Macmillan

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change (New Studies in Economic and Social History, Series Number 10)

This book provides an introduction to, and critical review of, the competing models that have been developed to explain long-term and large-scale economic change. An acquaintance with these models is necessary for an understanding of the processes that produced the foundations for the modern pattern of global production and distribution. Drawing examples from European and Asian history in the early modern period, the author presents an accessible and nontechnical exposition that will be invaluable to students of economic history.

Cambridge University Press

The Life Of Thomas Ken, Bishop Of Bath And Wells

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972

From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, farmers in the Corn Belt transformed their region into a new, industrial powerhouse of large-scale production, mechanization, specialization, and efficiency. Many farm experts and implement manufacturers had urged farmers in this direction for decades, but it was the persistent labor shortage and cost-price squeeze following WWII that prompted farmers to pave the way to industrializing agriculture. Anderson examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques. In addition to the impressive field machinery, grain storage facilities, and automated feeding systems were the less visible, but no less potent, chemical technologies—antibiotics and growth hormones administered to livestock, as well as insecticide, herbicide, and fertilizer applied to crops. Much of this new technology created unintended consequences: pesticides encouraged the proliferation of resistant strains of plants and insects while also polluting the environment and threatening wildlife, and the use of feed additives triggered concern about the health effects to consumers. Anderson explains that the cost of equipment and chemicals made unprecedented demands on farm capital, and in order to maximize production, farmers planted more acres with fewer but more profitable crops or specialized in raising large herds of a single livestock species. The industrialization of agriculture gave rural Americans a lifestyle resembling that of their urban and suburban counterparts. Yet the rural population continued to dwindle as farms required less human labor, and many small farmers, unable or unwilling to compete, chose to sell out. Industrializing the Corn Belt—based on farm records, cooperative extension reports, USDA publications, oral interviews, trade literature, and agricultural periodicals—offers a fresh look at an important period of revolutionary change in agriculture through the eyes of those who grew the crops, raised the livestock, implemented new technology, and ultimately made the decisions that transformed the nature of the family farm and the Midwestern landscape.

History

Americas

Northern Illinois University Press

J.L. Anderson seeks to change the belief that the Midwest lacks the kind of geographic coherence, historical issues, and cultural touchstones that have informed regional identity in the American South, West, and Northeast. The goal of this illuminating volume is to demonstrate uniqueness in a region that has always been amorphous and is increasingly so. Midwesterners are a dynamic people who shaped the physical and social landscapes of the great midsection of the nation, and they are presented as such in this volume that offers a general yet informed overview of the region after World War II.
The contributors―most of whom are Midwesterners by birth or residence―seek to better understand a particular piece of rural America, a place too often caricatured, misunderstood, and ignored. However, the rural landscape has experienced agricultural diversity and major shifts in land use. Farmers in the region have successfully raised new commodities from dairy and cherries to mint and sugar beets. The region has also been a place where community leaders fought to improve their economic and social well-being, women redefined their roles on the farm, and minorities asserted their own version of the American Dream.
The rural Midwest is a regional melting pot, and contributors to this volume do not set out to sing its praises or, by contrast, assume the position of Midwestern modesty and self-deprecation. The essays herein rewrite the narrative of rural decline and crisis, and show through solid research and impeccable scholarship that rural Midwesterners have confronted and created challenges uniquely their own.

The Rural Midwest Since World War II

Kessinger Publishing

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.

The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells

Literary Licensing, LLC

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Relationships

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Explaining Long-Term Economic Change (Studies in Economic and Social History)

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change (New Studies in Economic and Social History, Series Number 10)

Explaining Long-Term Economic Change (New Studies in Economic and Social History, Series Number 10)

The Life Of Thomas Ken, Bishop Of Bath And Wells

Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972

The Rural Midwest Since World War II

Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972

The Life Of Thomas Ken, Bishop Of Bath And Wells

The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells

The Emotionally Absent Mother: How To Overcome Your Childhood Neglect When You Don't Know Where To Start & Meditations And Affirmations to Help You Overcome Childhood Neglect.