UID:
almafu_9961565870002883
Format:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700633562
Content:
"Iowa in the 1980s-the state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and small town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and communities were to endure, they would have to think about themselves, their farms, and their futures in new ways. When a Dream Dies examines the lives of ordinary Iowa farmers during the 1980s. For many Iowan families, this meant restructuring their lives or moving away from agriculture completely. Told from the perspective of Iowa, a state which arguably experienced the worst of the crisis, this project helps to explain how this disaster changed children, families, communities, and the development of the Midwest in the late twentieth century"--
Note:
Introduction -- The go-go seventies -- 1979-1983, from fencerow to fencerow to failure -- 1984, the year of realization -- 1985, from penny auctions to declaration of emergency -- 1986, from fears of violence to glimmers of hope -- 1987-1993, from crisis to chronic -- Epilogue: last generation farmers.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela When a Dream Dies La Vergne : University Press of Kansas,c2022 ISBN 9780700633555
Language:
English
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