Original PDF Ebook – Born in the Country3rd EditionA History of Rural America – 9781421423357

Original PDF Ebook – Born in the Country3rd EditionA History of Rural America – 9781421423357

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 is the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions about the American experience._x000D_
Danbom employs the stories of particular farm families to illustrate the experiences of rural people. This substantially revised and updated third edition_x000D_
• expands and deepens its coverage of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries_x000D_
• focuses on the changes in agriculture and rural life in the progressive and New Deal eras as well as the massive shifts that have taken place since 1945_x000D_
• adds new information about African American and Native American agricultural experiences_x000D_
• discusses the decline of agriculture as a productive enterprise and its impact on farm families and communities_x000D_
• explores rural culture, gender issues, agriculture, and the environment_x000D_
• traces the relationship among farmers, agribusiness, and consumers_x000D_
In a new and provocative concluding chapter, Danbom reflects on increasing consumer disenchantment with and resistance to modern agriculture as well as the transformation of rural America into a place where farmers are a shrinking minority. Ultimately, he asks whether a distinctive style of rural life exists any longer.