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The dawn of industrial agriculture in Iowa : anthropology, literature, and history / E. Paul Durrenberger.

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"Recounts the capitalist transformation of Iowa's family farms into today's agricultural industry through the lives and writings of Iowa novelist Paul Corey and poet Ruth Lechlitner. This anthropological biography analyzes their writing and correspondence to offer a perspective on an...

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Online Access: https://forms.gle/9iFk99GZ6V2FU9oR8
Main Author: Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2021]
Subjects:
Corey, Paul, > 1903-1992 > Correspondence.
Lechlitner, Ruth, > 1901-1989 > Correspondence.
Agriculture > Iowa > History.
Agricultural industries > Iowa > History.
Farm management > Iowa > History.
Land use, Rural > Iowa > History.
Lechlitner, Ruth, > 1901-1989.
Agricultural industries.
Agriculture.
Farm management.
Land use, Rural.
Iowa.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Table of Contents:
  • America's disappeared
  • The prophecy and its fulfillment
  • From Iowa City
  • Living on the land
  • Regionalism and radicalism
  • Naturalism as ethnography
  • The demise of Iowa's family farms: A mural in Seven panels
  • The one or the many? Writing style
  • Agents and editors
  • A collective story.

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