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Prairie town : redefining rural life in the age of globalization / Jacqueline Edmondson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmondson, Jacqueline, 1967-
- Series:
- Critical perspectives series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Rural--Minnesota.
- Sociology, Rural.
- Farm life--Minnesota.
- Farm life.
- Rural poor--Minnesota.
- Rural poor.
- Agricultural industries--Minnesota.
- Agricultural industries.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Minnesota.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture and state--Minnesota.
- Agriculture and state.
- Literacy--Minnesota.
- Literacy.
- Home economics, Rural--Minnesota.
- Home economics, Rural.
- Rural conditions.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects.
- Minnesota--Rural conditions.
- Minnesota.
- Minnesota--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- x, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Contents:
- Part I The Contemporary Rural Condition
- Chapter 1 Rural Community in a Global Village: The View from Prairie Town 21
- Chapter 2 Agricultural Policy and Labor Issues in Rural Minnesota 35
- Part II Rural Literacies
- Chapter 3 Traditional Rural Literacy 49
- Chapter 4 Neoliberalism and Rural Literacy 71
- Part III Toward a New Rural Literacy
- Chapter 5 A Prairie Renaissance 95
- Chapter 6 Joining Hands: Connecting Prairie Town to the World, and the World to Prairie Town 111.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742519414
- 0742519422
- OCLC:
- 51878935
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