The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990

by Jane Adams

Book Overview

Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change. Adams identifies contradictions that, on a personal level, influenced relations between children and parents, men and women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844799
• ISBN13: 9780807844793
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.1"