| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Series on Ohio history and culture |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
The land -- The people and their culture -- Claiming the land, and settling in -- Traditions and revisions -- The transportation problem -- Making do, with roads and without -- New connections, new directions -- Urbana -- The prospect of a railroad -- Changing prospects -- Reapers -- Improving the land -- Organizing for improvement: an agricultural society -- Geography, generation, and gender: Union Township, 1860 -- Adaptive diversity -- The relevance of horses -- Making sense of civil war -- Distant fields -- Common ground |
| Summary |
River, Reaper, Rail: Agriculture and Identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 tells the story of farmers and technology in Ohio's Champaign County and its Mad River Valley from the beginnings of white settlement in 1795 through the decades after the Civil War. This is a story of land-hungry migrants who brought a market-oriented farm ethos across the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley. There, they adapted their traditional farm practices to opportunities and big changes brought by the railroad, the mechanization of the harvesting process, and the development of state-sponsored farmer organizations. For a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century, this part of America's heartland was the center of the nation geographically, agriculturally, and industrially. With the coming of the Civil War and the nation's further industrialization and westward expansion, the representative centrality of west central Ohio diminished. But the shared conviction that "we are an agricultural people" did not. This book presents their embrace of that view as a process of innovation, adjustment, challenge, and conservative acceptance spanning two or three generations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Ohio -- History -- 19th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / General
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Agriculture
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| SUBJECT |
Mad River (Ohio) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079494
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| Subject |
Ohio
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Ohio -- Mad River
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Project Muse.
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| LC no. |
2018024550 |
| ISBN |
9781629220772 |
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1629220779 |
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9781629220789 |
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1629220787 |
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