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020 _a9780203958650
_q(e-book : PDF)
020 _a9781135475284
_q(e-book: PDF)
020 _a9781135475352
_q(e-book: ePub)
020 _a9781135475420
_q(e-book: Mobi)
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024 7 _a10.4324/9780203958650
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)947837529
043 _an-usc--
050 4 _aPN4888.A43
_bF78 2005
082 0 4 _a070.449630977
_bF946
100 1 _aFry, John J.,
_eauthor.
_912784
245 1 4 _aThe farm press, reform, and rural change, 1895-1920 /
_cJohn J. Fry.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2005.
300 _a1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aStudies in American popular history and culture
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction. The rural midwest and the farm press during the progressive era -- chapter 1. "First class papers" and "never-stop papers" : twenty-five years of the midwestern farm press -- ch. 2. Editors and publishers : the faces behind the midwestern farm press -- ch. 3. "What farmers read and liked" : scenes of reading in the rural midwest -- ch. 4. "Who read the agricultural journals?" : farm newspaper subscribers in the lower midwest -- ch. 5. "Innumerable little white churches" : the rural church and the midwestern farm press -- ch. 6. "The school house at the crossroads" : the rural school and the midwestern farm press -- ch. 7. "Why leave the farm?" : the rural family and the midwestern farm press -- Conclusion. "Good farming, clear thinking, right living" : the uses of midwestern farm newspapers -- Epilogue. Midwestern farm newspapers since the 1920s.
520 _aAn in-depth look at producers and readers of Midwestern farm newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century.
650 0 _aAgricultural journalism
_zMiddle West
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_912785
650 0 _aAgricultural journalism
_zMiddle West
_xHistory
_y19th century.
_912786
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780415972864
_w(DLC) 2004029632
830 0 _aAmerican popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135475284
_zClick here to view.
942 _cEBK
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