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American farming culture and the history of technology / Joshua T. Brinkman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brinkman, Joshua T., author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in food, society and environment
- Routledge studies in food society and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural machinery--Social aspects--Middle West--History.
- Agricultural machinery.
- Farmers--Middle West--Social conditions.
- Farmers.
- Social history--Middle West.
- Social history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group/Earthscan from Routledge, 2024
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Setting the stage: the genealogy of contemporary rural identity in the Midwest
- Chapter 2. Are we ready for this? Urban industrialism, rural resistance, and rural-urban conflict
- Chapter 3. The future of an idea: farmers use of technology to perform rural capitalistic modernity
- Chapter 4. Mother and radio: combatting urban gender stereotypes through technology use
- Chapter 5. Rumbling down main street: cold war ideology and the American way encouraging rural capitalistic modernity
- Chapter 6. We feed the world: rural globalized ultramodernity
- Chapter 7. The district of hicks: persistent urban views of farmers as backward
- Chapter 8. Inborn innovators or hog house janitors? the acceptance or rejection of technologies and rural globalized ultramodernity
- Chapter 9. Company in the combine: gender, farming, and comparing organic reformist and rural ultramodern identities
- Chapter 10. There they go again: understanding clashes between ultramodern farmers and organic advocates over food policy and reform
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brinkman, Joshua T. American farming culture and the history of technology
- ISBN:
- 9781032637952
- 1032637951
- Publisher Number:
- 40032388306
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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