Title Civic learning through agricultural improvement : bringing "the loom and the anvil into proximity with the plow" / Glenn P. Lauzon

Published Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 240 pages) Series Studies in the history of education Studies in the history of education (Greenwich, Conn.) Contents ""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Locating the Civics in Nineteenth-Century Agriculture""; ""Chapter 2: Between Frontier and Civilization: The Agricultural Improvement Agenda""; ""Chapter 3: Fair Frustrations: Agricultural Education as Civic Learning in the 1850s""; ""Chapter 4: Growing Indiana: Agricultural Improvement and the Growth Imperative""; ""Chapter 5: Promoting the Farmer�s Interest: Politics and the Grange"" ""Chapter 6: Between Town and Country: The Grange and Economic Cooperation""""Chapter 7: Bringing Town and Country Together for Progress at the County Fair""; ""Chapter 8: Bringing Farmers into Town for a Strictly Agricultural Education""; ""Chapter 9: Agricultural Improvement�s Civic Harvest""; ""Chapter 10: The Historian�s Search for Civic Learning"" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Agricultural conservation -- Middle West -- 19th century Service learning -- Middle West -- 19th century Social participation -- Middle West -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food. Agricultural conservation Service learning Social participation Middle West Form Electronic book ISBN 9781617351495 1617351490

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