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题名/责任者:

Sod busting : how families made farms on the nineteenth-century plains / David B. Danbom.

出版发行项:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

ISBN:

9781421414508

ISBN:

1421414503

ISBN:

9781421414515

ISBN:

1421414511

载体形态项:

x, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

变异题名:

How families made farms on the nineteenth-century plains

丛编说明:

How things worked

个人责任者:

Danbom, David B., 1947-

团体名称主题:

Farmers-Great Plains-History-19th century

论题主题:

Agriculture-Great Plains-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Farmers-Great Plains-History-19th century.

论题主题:

Agriculture-Grandes Plaines-Histoire-19e sie cle.

论题主题:

Agriculteurs-Grandes Plaines-Histoire-19e sie cle.

论题主题:

Agriculture.

论题主题:

Farmers.

论题主题:

Landwirtschaft

论题主题:

Familienbetrieb

论题主题:

Agriculteurs-E tats-Unis-Grandes Plaines (E tats-Unis)-19e sie cle.

论题主题:

Exploitations agricoles familiales-E tats-Unis-Grandes Plaines (E tats-Unis)-19e sie cle.

地理名称主题:

Great Plains.

地理名称主题:

Great Plains

中图法分类号:

S-09

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-121) and index.

摘要附注:

"Stretching beyond the sweeping accounts typical of standard textbooks, Danbom challenges students to think about the many practicalities of surviving on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century by providing a detailed account of how settlers acquired land and made homes, farms, and communities. He examines the physical and climatic obstacles of the plains - perhaps America's most inhospitable frontier - and shows how settlers sheltered themselves, gained access to fuel and water, and broke the land for agriculture. Treating the Great Plains as a post-industrial frontier, Danbom delves into the economic motivations of settlers, as well as the physically and economically difficult process of farm making. He explains how settlers got the capital they needed to succeed and how they used the labor of the entire family to survive until farms returned profits. He examines closely the business decisions that determined the success or failure of these farmers in a boom-and-bust economy; details the creation of churches, schools, and service centers that enriched the social and material lives of the settlers; and shows how the support of government, railroads, and other businesses contributed to the success of plains settlement. Based on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land."--Back cover.

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