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Farm Buildings: in England and Wales (Routledge Revivals)
by John WoodfordeFirst published in 1983, Farm Buildings gives a fascinating account of what has been happening in and around farm buildings since medieval times, and describes their structure, their function and their style. This is followed by a long section in which sixty-eight representative types of Welsh and English farm buildings are commented on by the author and illustrated by John Penoyre. John Woodforde emphasizes that just as people increasingly enjoy looking at old farm buildings, so too some farmers are coming to appreciate them with a new eye, noting that they possess in their yards assets whose value is greater in several ways than they used to think. This book will be of interest to students of architecture, history and agriculture.
The Farm Crisis, 1919-1923
by James H. ShidelerThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.
Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir
by Beuna CarlsonWhen Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderie, and resourcefulness. In the midst of the Great Depression, despite record-breaking heat and crop failure, growing up on the family farm was nevertheless filled with bucolic pleasures. Farm Girl is Beuna "Bunny" Coburn Carlson's loving tribute to the gently rolling hills of western Wisconsin. With an inviting and fluid voice, she shares intimate moments of happinesses from her childhood: collecting butternuts for homemade maple candy, watching her father read by the flickering light of a kerosene lamp, and the joy of finding a juicy orange at the bottom of a Christmas stocking. Underlying each vignette is the courage of a strong family surviving adversity and finding comfort in one another. Hers is a memoir that readers can dip in and out of with pleasure.
Farm Girl: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Bai JiaXiaoNvAt that time, if any family in the village gave birth to a girl, when their daughter's first cry was heard, no matter how poor their family was, they would brew three jars of their daughter's red wine in the Wutu Valley until their daughter got married at the age of eighteen.However, if the daughter died before she got married, the wine would be carved into the flower.A flower carving was the same as a flower bud.
Farm Girl: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Bai JiaXiaoNvAt that time, if any family in the village gave birth to a girl, when their daughter's first cry was heard, no matter how poor their family was, they would brew three jars of their daughter's red wine in the Wutu Valley until their daughter got married at the age of eighteen.However, if the daughter died before she got married, the wine would be carved into the flower.A flower carving was the same as a flower bud.
Farm Girl: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Bai JiaXiaoNvAt that time, if any family in the village gave birth to a girl, when their daughter's first cry was heard, no matter how poor their family was, they would brew three jars of their daughter's red wine in the Wutu Valley until their daughter got married at the age of eighteen.However, if the daughter died before she got married, the wine would be carved into the flower.A flower carving was the same as a flower bud.
Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years (Harvard Historical Studies #80)
by Allen Matusow<p>In this thorough and lively study, Allen Matusow, tracing the history of government policy on food and agriculture during the Truman administration, relates the process by which the United States government overcame disharmony among its own politicians and farmers to save Europe from famine in the years immediately following World War II. <p>The Department of Agriculture, which had asserted that "food will win the war and write the peace," was often reluctant to believe its own slogan. Elucidating the policies involved in postwar planning for both foreign trade and domestic farm production, Matusow shows how the memorable fear of huge surpluses created by the Depression in the 1930s had affected the attitudes of government officials toward agricultural planning and production from 1945 to 1952. <p>Interpreting the origins and defeat of the Brannan Plan, the author finds remnants of that policy evident in the current adoption of production payments. Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years offers new insight into the creative agricultural policy which emerged, from hesitant beginnings, in Truman's second term.</p>
The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920 (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
by John J. FryThis project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860
by Martin BruegelAt the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word "capital" first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market economy. In Farm, Shop, Landing Martin Bruegel turns his attention to the daily lives of merchants, artisans, and farmers who lived and worked along the Hudson River in the decades following the American Revolution to explain how the seeds of capitalism were spread on rural U. S. soil. Combining theoretical rigor with extensive archival research, Bruegel's account diverges from other historiographies of nineteenth-century economic development. It challenges the assumption that the coexistence of long-distance trade, private property, and entrepreneurial activity lead to one inescapable outcome: a market economy either wholeheartedly embraced or entirely rejected by its members. When Bruegel tells the story of farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests, widow Mary Livingston battling her tenants, blacksmith Samuel Fowks perfecting the cast-iron plough, and Hannah Bushnell sending her butter to market, Bruegel shows that the social conventions of a particular community, and the real struggles and hopes of individuals, actively mold the evolving economic order. Ultimately, then, Farm, Shop, Landing suggests that the process of modernization must be understood as the result of the simultaneous and often contentious interplay of social and economic spheres.
The Farm Then and Now
by Douglas StevensonIn the Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury, a charismatic young hippie by the name of Stephen Gaskin launched "Monday Night Class"--a weekly event which drew together an eclectic mix of truth-seekers and flower children. Soon the class became a caravan, and after touring the country this colorful crew decided to seek a plot of land and found a commune based on their shared values. Thus was born The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee.The Farm Then and Now presents the story of a group that has defied the odds, blending idealism with a practical approach to intentional community and creating a model for sustainable living. Just as the Monday Night Classes taught students to open their hearts and minds, The Farm continues as a School of Change, demonstrating ways to operate collectively in terms of: Land, water, and stewardship Health care, building, and infrastructure Cooperation, compassion, and spiritual valuesFor humans to survive as a species, we must relearn the skills needed to work together; the lessons of The Farm can be applied in any community or organization. The Farm Then and Now addresses both the successes and shortcomings of this unique ongoing social experiment, showing how what was once the largest commune in the world has evolved into an exceptional example of living lightly on the earth.Douglas Stevenson has been a member of The Farm Community for forty years. His company Green Life Retreats hosts the Farm Experience Weekend and other instructional seminars about sustainable living.
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World #29)
by Robert C. AllenTo say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history. Moreover, by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context for its evaluation.Although the Russian economy began to develop in the late nineteenth century based on wheat exports, modern economic growth proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to successful Five Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during the 1930s and raised living standards, especially for the many peasants who moved to cities. A sudden drop in fertility due to the education of women and their employment outside the home also facilitated growth.While highlighting the previously underemphasized achievements of Soviet planning, Farm to Factory also shows, through methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst excesses--such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture--did little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970, as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet leadership lacking in original thought pursued wasteful investments.
The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
by Emily K. Abel Margaret K. NelsonAlthough summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping trips and the work projects. Importantly, the Farm & Wilderness camps were some of the first private camps to become racially integrated.The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century traces these camps, both unique and emblematic of American youth culture of the twentieth century, from their establishment in the late 1930s to the end of the twentieth century. Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson explore how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured by the camps to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understandings of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity. To illustrate this change, the authors draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crises of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States (UNC Institute for Research in the Social Sciences)
by Rachel Ann RosenfeldRosenfeld argues that farm women have rarely been identified as productive farm workers and that they continue to be seen only as mothers and homemakers. She shows that in addition to performing a wide range of farm work, these women in fact help ensure the farm's economic survival by contributing wages from outside employment. She raises questions about government policy and stresses the need for study in both industrialized and development societies.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Farmer And The Wood Nymph (Buffalo Series #2)
by JoAnn Smith AinsworthWaking alone on a mountainside, LILAH recalls nothing about her life, except a strong belief that some man somewhere loves her. A well hidden wedding band holds the hope that man will come to rescue her. But when her salvation comes in the form of a farmer resembling a Viking God, Lilah struggles to stay faithful to the ideal she cannot remember. ERNEST NOLAN finds the vivacious beauty wandering in the wilderness and hopes that true love will be his at last. Spontaneous and exciting, Lilah is everything his careful heart has longed for. But a decent man never trifles with another man's woman. The mystery of Lilah's identity and that wedding ring must be resolved. Searching for answers, these two opposites discover that differences can bring both attraction and difficulties. Can they overcome the obstacles and learn to walk a path of love and harmony?
The Farmer From Merna: A Biography Of George J. Mecherle And A History Of The State Farm Insurance Companies Of Bloomington, Illinois
by Mecherle Karl SchriftgeisserThis is the biography of George J. Mecherle, an Illinois farmer who conceived of a plan to bring low-cost honest auto insurance to the farming people of his home state. It tells of his struggle to get the business established and the growth of his venture.
Farmer George Plants a Nation
by Layne Johnson Peggy ThomasSee George Washington as he's rarely seen--as a farmer, inventor, and scientist. All his life, Washington sought to improve farming methods and share his knowledge with other farmers. His goal to make Mount Vernon self-sufficient carried over to his goal to make the new country independent.
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl and Her Prince Husband: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by Lin MuMuMu Nanzhi never thought that when she woke up, she would become a member of the transcendent army. Moreover, she would become a fool. There was even a group of relatives that were eyeing the siblings covetously!Did he really think she was easy to bully? Let's see how she would beat up her best relatives, lead her siblings to become rich, and climb to the pinnacle of life …However, he didn't expect to accidentally pick up a man wrapped around his upper body, "My wife, I'm good at farming."
Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Hua ManYiA malicious mother, a mean sister-in-law, a violent big brother, enough anger from a family. There was a little fool by the side of the road, picking up bags and carrying them home. Suddenly, one day, this little fool looked at her as if she was a hungry wolf …
Farmer Girl Becomes a Pheonix: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Hua ManYiA malicious mother, a mean sister-in-law, a violent big brother, enough anger from a family. There was a little fool by the side of the road, picking up bags and carrying them home. Suddenly, one day, this little fool looked at her as if she was a hungry wolf …