| From Prairie To Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd Edition Contributor(s): Bogue, Allan G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566638798 ISBN-13: 9781566638791 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 338.109 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.01 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Iowa - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning in 1820, settlers broke the tall grass prairies of mid-America. By the 1870s they had begun to use the term "Corn Belt" to describe much of the region. In From Prairie to Corn Belt, Allan G. Bogue chronicles this remarkable transformation and challenges the view that the post-Civil War period constituted thirty years of unrelieved agricultural depression. His book remains the only study of Midwestern agricultural development that focuses on the farmers themselves, the entire range of production problems they had to solve on their land, and the diversity of their responses. |