| Edition |
Expanded ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Decline and denial -- Roots of the farm crisis -- The rise of the rural ghetto -- Poverty and social disintegration -- The dying of the light -- The growth of hate groups -- The second wave -- What future, what hope? |
| Summary |
Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the dec. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Rural conditions.
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United States. |
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Rural conditions. |
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Rural poor -- United States.
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Rural poor. |
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Farmers -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Farmers. |
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1980 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken heartland. Expanded ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996 0877455546 (DLC) 96012117 (OCoLC)34477038 |
| ISBN |
1587290413 (electronic book) |
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9781587290411 (electronic book) |
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0877455546 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780877455547 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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