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Down and out on the family farm : rural rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945 / Michael Johnston Grant.
Lippincott Library HD1476.U5 G7 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Michael Johnston, 1961-
- Series:
- Our sustainable future ; v. 15.
- Our sustainable future ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family farms--Great Plains.
- Family farms.
- Farms, Small--Government policy--Great Plains.
- Farms, Small.
- Rural development--Great Plains.
- Rural development.
- Farms, Small--Government policy.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Great Plains.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Focusing on Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, Grant examines small family farmers and the Rural Rehabilitation Program designed to help them. He reveals the tension between economic forces that favored large-scale agriculture and political pressure that championed family farms, and the results of that clash.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803271050
- OCLC:
- 49226001
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