Mixed harvest: the second great transformation in the rural North, 1870-1930

609 Pages·1997·4.46 MB·English

by  Hal S. Barron

Mixed Harvest : The Second Great
title: Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-
1930 Studies in Rural Culture
author: Barron, Hal S.
publisher: University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin: 0807823546
print isbn13: 9780807823545
ebook isbn13: 9780807860267
language: English
United States--Rural conditions, Social
subject
change--United States--History.
publication date: 1997
lcc: HN57.B334 1997eb
ddc: 307.72/0973
United States--Rural conditions, Social
subject: change--United States--History.
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Mixed Harvest
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STUDIES IN RURAL CULTURE Jack Temple Kirby, editor
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Mixed Harvest
The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North,
1870-1930
Hal S. Barron
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
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© 1997 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barron, Hal S.
Mixed harvest: the second great transformation
in the rural North, 1870-1930/by Hal S. Barron.
p. cm. (Studies in rural culture)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and
index.
ISBN 0-8078-2354-6 (cloth: alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4659-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. United States Rural conditions. 2. Social
change United States History. I. Series.
HN57.B334 1997
307.72'0973 dc21 96-51451
CIP
01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1
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For my parents, Bernard W. and Judith T. Barron,
and my daughter, Maya Kobayashi Barron
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CONTENTS
Preface xi
Introduction
Change, Continuity, and the Transformations of Rural 7
Life
Part One. Citizens
1 19
And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight
Rural Road Reform and the Politics of Localism
2 43
Teach No More His Neighbor
Localism and Rural Opposition to Educational Reform
Part Two. Producers
3 81
Bringing Forth Strife
The Ironies of Dairy Organization in the New York
Milkshed
4 107
To Reap the Whirlwind
The Social and Ideological Bases of Farmers' Grain
Elevators
Part Three. Consumers
5 155
With All the Fragrant Powders of the Merchant
Mail-Order Buying in the Rural North
Page viii
6 193
Not the Bread of Idleness
The Rural North and Consumer Culture in the 1920s
Conclusion 243
Notes 247
Note on Sources 287
Index 289