Farmer's Benevolent Trust

by Victoria Saker Woeste and Woeste

Book Overview

Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one
imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-
sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's
cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of
rural society long after industrialization radically transformed
the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically
embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847313
• ISBN13: 9780807847312
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"