Mixed Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixed Harvest write by Hal S. Barron. This book was released on 2000-11-09. Mixed Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continuity. Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Reformers and professionals sought to centralize authority and diminish local control over such important aspects of rural society as schools and roads; large-scale business corporations wielded increasing market power, to the detriment of independent family farmers; and an encroaching urban-based consumer culture threatened rural beliefs in the primacy of their local communities and the superiority of country life. But, Barron argues, by reconfiguring traditional rural values of localism, independence, republicanism, and agrarian fundamentalism, country people successfully created a distinct rural subculture. Consequently, agrarian society continued to provide a counterpoint to the dominant trends in American society well into the twentieth century.
Mixed Harvest
Mixed Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixed Harvest write by Rob Swigart. This book was released on 2019-12-03. Mixed Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short stories about the deep past and those who lived through millennia of exploration, hardship, and uncertainty during the evolution of farming. Winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Award, Multicultural and Indigenous “Swigart is to be congratulated for giving us a series of connected short stories that are both entertaining and educational. The book is accurately grounded in archaeological facts, and its individual stories are thoroughly believable. Its particular format should be emulated by all those wishing to blend fact and fiction, not just as entertainment but as education, too.”—Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of compelling storytelling and well-researched archaeology underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Neolithic Revolution, also called the (First) Agricultural Revolution, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart’s latest work humanizes the rapid transition to agriculture and pastoralism with a grounding in the archaeological record. From the introduction: In the space of a few thousand years agriculture dominated the earth. We live with it all around us. History began, cities soared, the landscape was crisscrossed with roads.... Each story is prefaced by a short introduction and followed by some context in order to stitch the narrative together. Some stories are linked, but most are independent. The stories are gathered into three chapters: “Shelter,” “House,” and “Home.” These represent a progression in where we lived, a series of transformations in technology and consciousness.
Mixed Harvest
Mixed Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixed Harvest write by W. E. Blackhurst. This book was released on 1970. Mixed Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mixed Harvest
Mixed Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mixed Harvest write by Hal S. Barron. This book was released on 1997. Mixed Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sharing the Harvest
Sharing the Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sharing the Harvest write by Elizabeth Henderson. This book was released on 2007. Sharing the Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at partnerships between local small farms and nearby consumers, who become members or subscribers in support of the farm, offering advice on acquiring land, organizing, handling the harvest, and money and legal matters.
