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Working the garden : American writers and the industrialization of agriculture

Author: William Conlogue; Jack Temple Kirby
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001.
Series: Studies in rural culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Pastoral literature is examined in light of the agricultural and industrial changes in American economics during the turn of the century, as small family farms in the latter half of the nineteenth century evolved into larger agribusiness conglomerates.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Conlogue, William.
Working the garden.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2001
(OCoLC)606637322
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Conlogue; Jack Temple Kirby
ISBN: 0807826685 9780807826683 0807849944 9780807849941
OCLC Number: 47018437
Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Bonanza!: Origins of the New Agriculture --
Challenging the Agrarian Myth: Women's Visibility in the New Agriculture --
Disciplining the Farmer: Class and Agriculture in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Human Kindness (1940) --
Racism and Industrial Farming: Actos (1965) and A Gathering of Old Men (1983) --
From A Thousand Acres (1991) to "The Farm" (1998) --
Postscript: Fixing Fence.
Series Title: Studies in rural culture.
Responsibility: William Conlogue.

Abstract:

Pastoral literature is examined in light of the agricultural and industrial changes in American economics during the turn of the century, as small family farms in the latter half of the nineteenth century evolved into larger agribusiness conglomerates.
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