The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 / Lisa L. Ossian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ossian, Lisa L., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal mines and mining.

Agriculture.

History.

Depressions.

Rural conditions.

Economic conditions.

Iowa--Economic conditions--20th century.

Iowa.

Iowa--Rural conditions.

Iowa--History--20th century.

Depressions--1929--Iowa.

Depressions--1929--United States.

United States.

Agriculture--Iowa--History.

Coal mines and mining--Iowa.

Physical Description:

xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri, [2011]

Summary:

To manv rural lowans, the stock market crash on New York's Wall Street in October 1929 seemed an event far removed from their lives, even though the effects of the crash became all too real throughout the state. From 1929 to 1933, the enthusiastic faith that most lowans had in Iowan President Herbert Hoover was transformed into bitter disappointment with the federal government. As a result, lowans directly questioned their leadership at the state, county, and community levels with a renewed spirit to salvage family farms, demonstrating the uniqueness of Iowa's rural life. Book jacket.

Contents:

"Main traveled gravel roads" : an Iowa tour before the fall, 1929

October 1929: the stock market plummets : echoes during the fall plowing: Iowa's reactions to the Wall Street crash

Welfare : renewed concerns, new prescriptions: politics of farm children's health

Domesticity : making do: farm women's coping through creative homemaking

Art : "An Athens of sorts": poetry of place and farm playlets

Industry : the angry, fading district thirteen: the demise of soft-coal mining

Violence : gangsters, bandits, mad men, and suicides: fear, anger, and death within a troubled landscape

Policy : prohibition possibly prohibited: voicing temperance concerns

November 1932: the presidential farm campaigns : dealing anew or same stacked deck?

The depth yet the crest : Iowa's dilemmas by 1933

"Too much" and "too little" : rural Iowa after 1933.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780826219466

0826219462

OCLC:

711050982