All We Knew Was to Farm Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 |
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| Author:
| Walker, Melissa |
| Series title: | Revisiting Rural America Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6318-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2000 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government ......
In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government ......