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Author Ossian, Lisa L., 1962-

Title The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 / Lisa L. Ossian
Published Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri, ©2011

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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
Subject Depressions -- 1929 -- Iowa
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Agriculture -- Iowa -- History
Coal mines and mining -- Iowa
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Agriculture
Coal mines and mining
Depressions
Economic history
Rural conditions
SUBJECT Iowa -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Iowa -- Rural conditions
Iowa -- History -- 20th century
Subject Iowa
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826272683
0826272681