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Mixed Harvest

The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930

By: Hal S. Barron

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Mixed Harvest

The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930

By: Hal S. Barron

Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continuity. Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Reformers and professionals sought to centralize authority and diminish local control over such important aspects of rural society as schools and roads; large-scale business corporations wielded increasing market power, to the detriment of independent family farmers; and an encroaching urban-based consumer culture threatened rural beliefs in the primacy of their local communities and the superiority of country life. But, Barron argues, by reconfiguring traditional rural values of localism, independence, republicanism, and agrarian fundamentalism, country people successfully created a distinct rural subculture. Consequently, agrarian society continued to provide a counterpoint to the dominant trends in American society well into the twentieth century.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860263

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9780807860267

Those who Stayed Behind

Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England

By: Hal S. Barron

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Those who Stayed Behind

Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England

By: Hal S. Barron

Hal Barron reconstructs the social and economic history of a nineteenth-century rural community in America, Chelsea, Vermont. He explores the economic hardships and population loss that most of America at this time experienced growth and geographical expansion. This book provides an innovative contribution to the history of rural America.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521347777

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9780521347778

Mixed Harvest

The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930

By: Hal S. Barron

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Mixed Harvest

The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930

By: Hal S. Barron

How rural northerners from New England to North Dakota met the rise of industrial society and consumer culture. Between 1870 and 1930, communities in the rural North faced a number of challenges. Author Hal S. Barron shows that by consolidating traditional rural values and agrarian fundamentalism, country people successfully created a distinct rural subculture that continued well into the 20th century. Illustrated.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807846597

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9780807846599

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