Outstanding in His Field: Perspectives on American Agricultural History in Honor of Wayne D. RasmussenHonoring Wayne D. Rasmussen, Mr. Agriculture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and throughout the nation, this book comprises essays by distinguished authors from varied disciplines on the past achievements, current status, and future challenges of agriculture history. |
Contents
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Old and New Directions in Agricultural History | 20 |
COMMENT | 35 |
COMMENT | 40 |
Old Wine in New Bottles? The Perspective of Rural History | 48 |
COMMENT | 61 |
HISTORICAL STUDIES | 67 |
Was There Ever an Agrarian Democracy in America? The American Middle West in 1860 | 69 |
Farming The Nations Small Big Business | 105 |
Wheres the Culture in Agricultural Technology? | 123 |
COMMENT | 138 |
WAYNE D RASMUSSEN | 143 |
Biography | 145 |
Writings of Wayne D Rasmussen Bibliography | 148 |
Index | 155 |
A Hundred Years of Dispossession Southern Farmers and the Forces of Change | 90 |
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Page 69 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 79 - Tenantry is unfavorable to freedom. It lays the foundation for separate orders in society, annihilates the love of country, and weakens the spirit of independence. The farming tenant has, in fact, no country, no hearth, no domestic altar, no household god. The freeholder, on the contrary, is the natural supporter of a free government ; and it should be the policy of republics to multiply their freeholders, as it is the policy of monarchies to multiply tenants.
Page 88 - FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt, 1920), pp.
Page 69 - Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.
Page 70 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, 150 is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a goodenough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.
Page 79 - The policy of unlimited sales and unrestricted transfer of titles made possible land monopolization by speculators, who acquired most of the choice lands in certain areas ... This resulted in the early disappearance of cheap or free land and the emergence of tenancy.
Page 113 - The family-type farm generally might be considered a farming operation in which managerial decisions are made by the farmer and most of the physical work in the production of the farm enterprise — exceptions would be made in harvest operations — is done by the members of the farm family living on the farm. It should be large enough to provide a reasonably full-time job for the operator, and sufficient income for the farm family.
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