LEADER 00000cam a2200721Ii 4500 001 on1047908788 003 OCoLC 005 20200110051717.7 006 m o d 007 cr mn||||||||| 008 180524t20182018ohuab ob 001 0 eng d 010 |z 2018024550 019 1048113528 020 9781629220772|q(electronic book) 020 1629220779|q(electronic book) 020 |z9781629220765|q(paperback : alkaline paper) 020 |z1629220760|q(paperback : alkaline paper) 020 |z9781629220789|q(epub) 020 |z1629220787|q(epub) 035 (OCoLC)1047908788|z(OCoLC)1048113528 040 P@U|beng|cP@U|dN$T|dYDX|dEBLCP|dOSU|dOCLCF|dOTZ|dUKAHL |dOCLCQ 043 n-us-oh 049 RIDW 050 00 S451.O3|bT46 2018 072 7 TEC|x003030|2bisacsh 072 7 TEC|x003080|2bisacsh 082 04 630.9771|223 090 S451.O3|bT46 2018 100 1 Thoresen, Timothy H. H.|q(Timothy Hans Hale),|d1944- |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00047273|eauthor. 245 10 River, reaper, rail :|bagriculture and identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 /|cTimothy H. H. Thoresen. 264 1 Akron :|bThe University of Akron Press,|c[2018] 264 4 |c©2018 300 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) :|billustrations, map. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Series on Ohio history and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 The land -- The people and their culture -- Claiming the land, and settling in -- Traditions and revisions -- The transportation problem -- Making do, with roads and without -- New connections, new directions -- Urbana -- The prospect of a railroad -- Changing prospects -- Reapers -- Improving the land -- Organizing for improvement: an agricultural society -- Geography, generation, and gender: Union Township, 1860 -- Adaptive diversity -- The relevance of horses -- Making sense of civil war -- Distant fields -- Common ground. 520 River, Reaper, Rail: Agriculture and Identity in Ohio's Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 tells the story of farmers and technology in Ohio's Champaign County and its Mad River Valley from the beginnings of white settlement in 1795 through the decades after the Civil War. This is a story of land-hungry migrants who brought a market-oriented farm ethos across the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley. There, they adapted their traditional farm practices to opportunities and big changes brought by the railroad, the mechanization of the harvesting process, and the development of state-sponsored farmer organizations. For a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century, this part of America's heartland was the center of the nation geographically, agriculturally, and industrially. With the coming of the Civil War and the nation's further industrialization and westward expansion, the representative centrality of west central Ohio diminished. But the shared conviction that "we are an agricultural people" did not. This book presents their embrace of that view as a process of innovation, adjustment, challenge, and conservative acceptance spanning two or three generations. 588 Description based on print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 19th century|2fast 648 7 1800-1899|2fast 650 0 Agriculture|zOhio|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects /sh2009114464|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 650 7 Agriculture.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/801355 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 651 0 Mad River (Ohio)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85079494 651 7 Ohio.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205075 655 0 Electronic books. 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 710 2 Project Muse.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n96089174 776 08 |iPrint version:|aThoresen, Timothy H. H. (Timothy Hans Hale), 1944-|tRiver, reaper, rail.|dAkron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2018]|z9781629220765|w(DLC) 2018024550|w(OCoLC)1035396814 830 0 Book collections on Project MUSE. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=1863808|zOnline eBook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this eBook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20200122|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 12-21,1-17 11948|lridw 994 92|bRID