Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803247871
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN :
Author : Caroline S. Kelsohn
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781590335000
Thomas Jefferson once envisioned the United States as a 'nation of yeomen farmers'. Looking around today, however, illustrates that nothing could be further from the truth. In a globalised world and techno-centred society, urban sprawl is overtaking rural America. For over a century, farming was the backbone of the American economy, and though it is still critical to American productivity, many rural areas are plagued by poverty and job reduction. Agricultural issues have a hold over national politics (as in the debates over farm subsidies), but they cannot change several significant trends in America today: the movement toward fewer and larger farms, environmental pressures from urban and suburban interests, and changing food consumption patterns. In order to assist the remaining 'yeomen farmers', a comprehensive and integrated agricultural policy must be initiated to sustain the nation's farming communities. This book analyses the status of the farm industry in rural America, providing a historical context for agriculture and assessing its future for the nation. and the information provided in this book is necessary to understanding the nature of what has historically been a key component of American industry and life.
Author : Sarah Stage
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501729942
Until recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collaboration among home economists, family and consumer science professionals, and women's historians. What knits the essays together is a willingness to revisit the subject of home economics with neither indictment nor apology. The volume includes significant new work that places home economics in the twentieth century within the context of the development of women's professions. Rethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. The essays in this volume show the range of activities pursued under the rubric of home economics, from dietetics and parenting, teaching and cooperative extension work, to test kitchen and product development. Exploration of the ways in which gender, race, and class influenced women's options in colleges and universities, hospitals, business, and industry, as well as government has provided a greater understanding of the obstacles women encountered and the strategies they used to gain legitimacy as the field developed.
Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351480308
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.
Author : Debra A. Reid
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African American agriculturists
ISBN : 1603445056
Jim Crow laws pervaded the south, reaching from the famous "separate yet equal" facilities to voting discrimination to the seats on buses. Agriculture, a key industry for those southern blacks trying to forge an independent existence, was not immune to the touch of racism, prejudice, and inequality. In "Reaping a Greater Harvest," Debra Reid deftly spotlights the hierarchies of race, class, and gender within the extension service. Black farmers were excluded from cooperative demonstration work in Texas until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension act in 1914. However, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and served black farmers. The now-measurable successes of these African American farmers exacerbated racial tensions and led to pressure on agents to maintain the status quo. The bureau that was meant to ensure equality instead became another tool for systematic discrimination and maintenance of the white-dominated southern landscape. Historians of race, gender, and class have joined agricultural historians in roundly praising Reid's work.
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780804765282
This first history of nontraditional education in America covers the span from Benjamin Franklin's Junto to community colleges. It aims to unravel the knotted connections between education and society by focusing on the voluntary pursuit of knowledge by those who were both older and more likely to be gainfully employed than the school-age population.
Author : Lynn Vernice Riskedal
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Johnson Suleimenov Yespolov
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477146938
Tlektes I. Espolov, Rector of the Kazakh National Agrarian University, and Academician of the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences Stanley R. Johnson, Board Chair, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University Zhenisbek Zh. Suleimenov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Kazakh National Agrarian University Tetyana Kalna-Dubinyuk, Associate Professor, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine Aliya Arynova PhD student, Kazakh National Agrarian University
Author : United States. Extension Service
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN :
