Agriculture And The Great Depression

Author : Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000640571

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Agriculture and the Great Depression by Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino Pdf

What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international panel of contributors who examine issues such as falling prices, industrial production, unemployment and the stagnation of aggregate demand. Together, they frame the interwar period as a pivotal turning point in the decline of subsistence agriculture and the growth of agricultural subsidies, which remain a key policy tool in many economies today. This illuminating book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in economic history, agricultural history, globalization and economic development.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky,Stephen Burwood
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038635137

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Agriculture During the Great Depression by Melvyn Dubofsky,Stephen Burwood Pdf

Author : Dwight W. Hoover
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015076180044

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A Good Day's Work by Dwight W. Hoover Pdf

Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm, recalls the events of day-to-day life in this era, offering detailed descriptions of daily work in each of the year's four seasons. A fascinating if grim reminder of what it was like to be a child with adult responsibilities, Mr. Hoover's unusual memoir recalls the rough edges as well as the happy moments of rural life.

Author : Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000640601

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Agriculture and the Great Depression by Gérard Béaur,Francesco Chiapparino Pdf

What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international panel of contributors who examine issues such as falling prices, industrial production, unemployment and the stagnation of aggregate demand. Together, they frame the interwar period as a pivotal turning point in the decline of subsistence agriculture and the growth of agricultural subsidies, which remain a key policy tool in many economies today. This illuminating book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in economic history, agricultural history, globalization and economic development.

Author : Thomas H. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000682281

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Agricultural Depression in the 1920's by Thomas H. Johnson Pdf

First published in 1985. This study explores the agricultural depression in the United States of America in the 1920’s. The author examines overproduction, wartime optimism and the farm crisis, and continuity and change in agriculture during this period. This title will be of great interest to students of history, agriculture, and economics.

Author : Janet Poppendieck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520958425

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Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat by Janet Poppendieck Pdf

At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system rendered extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however, captured the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it was to this definition of the problem that surplus commodities distribution programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations were addressed. This book explains in readable narrative how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book explains how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance in subsequent administrations; it also examines the performance--or lack of performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs. Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American farmer before the depression and the impact of the Depression on farmers, the author describes the development of Hoover assistance programs and the events at the end of that administration that shaped the "historical moment" seized by the early New Deal. Poppendieck goes on to analyze the food assistance policies and programs of the Roosevelt years, the particular series of events that culminated in the decision to purchase surplus agriculture products and distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization of this approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups formed. The book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for use as a tool in the maintenance of farm income. Utliizing a wide variety of official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with unusual clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to the poor to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.

Author : Thomas H. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000681581

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Agricultural Depression in the 1920's by Thomas H. Johnson Pdf

First published in 1985. This study explores the agricultural depression in the United States of America in the 1920’s. The author examines overproduction, wartime optimism and the farm crisis, and continuity and change in agriculture during this period. This title will be of great interest to students of history, agriculture, and economics.

Author : Richard Perren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521557682

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Agriculture in Depression 1870-1940 by Richard Perren Pdf

A concise 1995 study which shows how British agriculture was affected by, and reacted to, international competition after 1870.

Author : Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415522168

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War, Agriculture, and Food by Paul Brassley,Yves Segers,Leen van Molle Pdf

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World War on the European countryside, and the impact of food and agricultural problems on the outcome of the war.

Author : Carrie A. Meyer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0816650322

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Days on the Family Farm by Carrie A. Meyer Pdf

From the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. May and her husband Elmo lived through two decades of prosperity, the Great Depression, and two World Wars in their Midwestern farming community. Like many women of her time, Davis kept diaries that captured the everyday events of the family farm; she also kept meticulous farming accounts. In doing so, she left an extraordinary record that reflects not only her own experiences but also the history of early twentieth-century American agriculture. May and Elmo’s story, engagingly told by Carrie A. Meyer, showcases the large-scale evolution of agriculture from horses to automobile and tractors, a surprisingly vibrant family and community life, and the business of commercial farming. Details such as what items were bought and sold, what was planted and harvested, the temperature and rainfall, births and deaths, and the direction of the wind are gathered to reveal a rich picture of a world shared by many small farmers. With sustainable and small-scale farming again on the rise in the United States, Days on the Family Farm resonates with both the profound and mundane aspects of rural life—past and present—in the Midwest. Carrie A. Meyer is associate professor of economics at George Mason University.

Author : Doug Hoverson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781452913377

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Land of Amber Waters by Doug Hoverson Pdf

A visual history of MInnesota beers and breweries traces the evolution of the state's beer industry, from the 1849 construction of the first brewery to the growth of small-town enterprises that gave way to large companies of regional and national prominence, offering a comprehensive list of Minnesota breweries as well as more than three hundred illustrations of beer and breweriana.

Author : Keith Joseph Volanto
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cotton growing
ISBN : 1585444022

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Texas, Cotton, And The New Deal by Keith Joseph Volanto Pdf

Cotton growing-Government policy-Texas-Historly 2. Cotton trade-government policy-Texas-History. 3. New Deal1933-1939-Texas. 4. United States.

Author : Kerry Douglas Smith
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Depression
ISBN : 0674003705

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A Time of Crisis by Kerry Douglas Smith Pdf

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and Tokyo policymakers. Smith sheds light on how average Japanese responded to problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Author : Ken Meter
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642831474

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Building Community Food Webs by Ken Meter Pdf

Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.

Author : Quentin F Veit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798643908814

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The Bumpy Road by Quentin F Veit Pdf

Step back in time to the tiny farm community of Osage Bend, Missouri, circa 1930-1945... Part memoir, part how-to manual, The Bumpy Road paints a vivid picture of life on the farm during the Great Depression. The author, recounting stories from his boyhood, brings to life the everyday trials and tribulations of his family and neighbors as they struggle to survive under daunting economic conditions. The hard work they put in was a given (to them), and their solutions to everyday problems were ingenious by necessity. And yet, they still found time to socialize and make the church the center of their lives. These tenacious people always looked to the future with hope and determination, and that comes shining through in this book. Depression-era, yes, depressing, no! So, discover the many facets of running a farm, how chores were done, the importance of family, and the many things that tied the community together. Marvel at the strength and resourcefulness of these rural Missourians-and take some of that for yourself as we endure our own difficult times today. Bonus: Includes photos and illustrations of farm tools, implements, and household items from the era, many of which you can now only find in museums.