Description |
1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
"Main traveled gravel roads" : an Iowa tour before the fall, 1929 -- October 1929: the stock market plummets : echoes during the fall plowing: Iowa's reactions to the Wall Street crash -- Welfare : renewed concerns, new prescriptions: politics of farm children's health -- Domesticity : making do: farm women's coping through creative homemaking -- Art : "An Athens of sorts": poetry of place and farm playlets -- Industry : the angry, fading district thirteen: the demise of soft-coal mining -- Violence : gangsters, bandits, mad men, and suicides: fear, anger, and death within a troubled landscape -- Policy : prohibition possibly prohibited: voicing temperance concerns -- November 1932: the presidential farm campaigns : dealing anew or same stacked deck? -- The depth yet the crest : Iowa's dilemmas by 1933 -- "Too much" and "too little" : rural Iowa after 1933 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Iowa
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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Agriculture -- Iowa -- History
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Coal mines and mining -- Iowa
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Agriculture
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Coal mines and mining
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Depressions
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Economic history
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Rural conditions
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SUBJECT |
Iowa -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Iowa -- Rural conditions
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Iowa -- History -- 20th century
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Iowa
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780826272683 |
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0826272681 |
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