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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900
2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transfor...
