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

by Hal S. Barron

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807846597
• ISBN13: 9780807846599
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher