| Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest Contributor(s): Salamon, Sonya (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469616092 ISBN-13: 9781469616094 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $44.20 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Rural - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 306.852 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Physical Information: 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ""Prairie Patrimony" consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in the United States. . . . No one should doubt the great contribution that Salamon has made to our understanding of American rural life."--"American Studies" " Salamon's] approach yields a depth of information about farming culture not usually found in the literature on rural America."--"Choice" "Takes the reader on a cultural tour of a cherished American institution and landscape--midwestern farm families and their farms. With perceptive attention to detail and knowledge borne of first-hand study over many years, Salamon] skillfully reveals the pervasive imprint of ethnicity. . . . "Prairie Patrimony" represents one of those rare studies that enrich our social vision and understanding in extraordinary ways."--Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Salamon's book is a remarkable contribution to the study of agriculture and culture, and its cross-disciplinary approach will engage scholars in many areas. For historians, it is a splendid illustration that different behaviors between American and immigrant farmers, planted over a century ago in the Middle West, have endured to the present."--Jon Gjerde, University of California, Berkeley |