The rural Midwest since World War II /edited by J.L. Anderson ; foreword by R. Douglas Hurt ; Shaun Allshouse, design.
- DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
A landscape transformed: ecosystems and natural resources in the Midwest / Ecology, economy, labor: the Midwestern farm landscape since 1945 / Beyond the Rust Bowl: the neglected history of the rural Midwest's industrialization after World War II / Midwestern rural communities in the Post-World War II era / Uneasy dependency: rural and farm policy and the Midwest since 1945 / Farmwomen in the Midwest since 1945 / Childhood in the rural Midwest since 1945 / "The whitest of occupations"? African-Americans in the rural Midwest, 1940-2010 / Hispanics in the rural Midwest since 1945 / Internal alternate: the Midwestern Amish since 1945 / Conclusion: the indistinct distinctiveness of rural Midwestern culture / James A. Pritchard -- Kendra Smith-Howard -- Wilson J. Warren -- Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- J.L. Anderson -- Jenny Barker Devine -- Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- Debra A. Reid -- Jim Norris -- Steven D. Reschly -- David Danbom.
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