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Mixed Harvest : The Second Great title: Transformation in the Rural North, 1870- 1930 Studies in Rural Culture author: Barron, Hal S. publisher: University of North Carolina Press isbn10 | asin: 0807823546 print isbn13: 9780807823545 ebook isbn13: 9780807860267 language: English United States--Rural conditions, Social subject change--United States--History. publication date: 1997 lcc: HN57.B334 1997eb ddc: 307.72/0973 United States--Rural conditions, Social subject: change--United States--History. Page i Mixed Harvest Page ii STUDIES IN RURAL CULTURE Jack Temple Kirby, editor Page iii Mixed Harvest The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 Hal S. Barron The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London Page iv © 1997 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Heidi Perov Set in Garamond MT Digital by G&S Typesetters Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barron, Hal S. Mixed harvest: the second great transformation in the rural North, 1870-1930/by Hal S. Barron. p. cm. (Studies in rural culture) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8078-2354-6 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4659-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. United States Rural conditions. 2. Social change United States History. I. Series. HN57.B334 1997 307.72'0973 dc21 96-51451 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1 Page v For my parents, Bernard W. and Judith T. Barron, and my daughter, Maya Kobayashi Barron Page vii CONTENTS Preface xi Introduction Change, Continuity, and the Transformations of Rural 7 Life Part One. Citizens 1 19 And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight Rural Road Reform and the Politics of Localism 2 43 Teach No More His Neighbor Localism and Rural Opposition to Educational Reform Part Two. Producers 3 81 Bringing Forth Strife The Ironies of Dairy Organization in the New York Milkshed 4 107 To Reap the Whirlwind The Social and Ideological Bases of Farmers' Grain Elevators Part Three. Consumers 5 155 With All the Fragrant Powders of the Merchant Mail-Order Buying in the Rural North Page viii 6 193 Not the Bread of Idleness The Rural North and Consumer Culture in the 1920s Conclusion 243 Notes 247 Note on Sources 287 Index 289

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Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer
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