Steam Power On The American Farm
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Steam Power On The American Farm
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Author : Reynold M. Wik
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
Steam Power On The American Farm written by Reynold M. Wik and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Steam Power On The American Farm
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Author : Reynold Millard Wik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Steam Power On The American Farm written by Reynold Millard Wik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Agricultural machinery categories.
American Farm Tools
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
American Farm Tools written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Agricultural implements categories.
The Application Of Steam Power To American Agriculture
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Author : Reynold M. Wik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Application Of Steam Power To American Agriculture written by Reynold M. Wik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Farm engines categories.
Agriculture In The Midwest 1815 1900
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-07
Agriculture In The Midwest 1815 1900 written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07 with History categories.
After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure--and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country's garden spot and the nation's heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region's past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers--and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.
Powering American Farms
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Author : Richard F. Hirsh
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Powering American Farms written by Richard F. Hirsh and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs. Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and popular histories inform us, farmers obtained electric service only because a compassionate federal government established the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The agencies' success in raising the standard of living for millions of Americans contrasted with the failure of the greedy big-city utility companies, which showed little interest in the apparently unprofitable nonurban market. Traditional accounts often describe the nation's population as split in two, separated by access to a magical form of energy: just past cities' limits, a bleak, preindustrial class of citizens endured, literally in near darkness at night and envious of their urban cousins, who enjoyed electrically operated lights, refrigerators, radios, and labor-saving appliances. In Powering American Farms, Richard F. Hirsh challenges the notion that electric utilities neglected rural customers in the years before government intervention. Drawing on previously unexamined resources, Hirsh demonstrates that power firms quadrupled the number of farms obtaining electricity in the years between 1923 and 1933, for example. Though not all corporate managers thought much of the farm business, a cadre of rural electrification advocates established the knowledge base and social infrastructure upon which New Deal organizations later capitalized. The book also suggests that the conventional storyline of rural electrification remains popular because it contains a colorful hero, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and villainous utility magnates, such as Samuel Insull, who make for an engaging—but distorted—narrative. Hirsh describes the evolution of power company managers' thinking in the 1920s and early 1930s—from believing that rural electrification made no economic sense to realizing that serving farmers could mitigate industry-wide problems. This transformation occurred as agricultural engineers in land-grant universities, supported by utilities, demonstrated productive electrical technologies that yielded healthy profits to farmers and companies alike. Gaining confidence in the value of rural electrification, private firms strung wires to more farms than did the REA until 1950, a fact conveniently omitted in conventional accounts. Powering American Farms will interest academic and lay readers of New Deal history, the history of technology, and revisionist historiography.
Where Have All The Horses Gone
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Author : Jonathan V. Levin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Where Have All The Horses Gone written by Jonathan V. Levin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Nature categories.
A century ago, horses were ubiquitous in America. They plowed the fields, transported people and goods within and between cities and herded livestock. About a million of them were shipped overseas to serve in World War I. Equine related industries employed vast numbers of stable workers, farriers, wainwrights, harness makers and teamsters. Cities were ringed with fodder-producing farmland, and five-story stables occupied prime real estate in Manhattan. Then, in just a few decades, the horses vanished in a wave of emerging technologies. Those technologies fostered unprecedented economic growth, and with it a culture of recreation and leisure that opened a new place for the horse as an athletic teammate and social companion.
The American Farmer
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Author : Charles Louis Flint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The American Farmer written by Charles Louis Flint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Agriculture categories.
American Farming And Stock Raising
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Author : Charles Louis Flint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
American Farming And Stock Raising written by Charles Louis Flint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Agriculture categories.
American Agriculture In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Bruce L. Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-31
American Agriculture In The Twentieth Century written by Bruce L. Gardner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture. Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy.