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  • The Country People

    An Agricultural History of the American Revolution

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Although historians have given considerable attention to the American Revolution, the agricultural history of the American War for Independence exists only in pieces found in scattered articles and passing references in various books dealing with the war. Nonagricultural historians have ignored it or treated it almost as an aside and unworthy of analysis, even when it is related to other war ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • The Ohio Frontier

    Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    "A vivid panorama of the transitional years when Ohio evolved from a raw frontier territory to an established province of an ever-expanding nation." — BooklistNowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures more violent than on the Ohio frontier. First settled by migrating Native Americans about 1720 and later by white settlers, Ohio became the crucible which set indigenous and military ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nathan Boone and the American Frontier

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series Book 1 - Missouri Biography Series
    Celebrated as one of America's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. Nathan Boone, the youngest of Daniel's sons, played a vital role in American pioneering, following in much the same steps as his famous father. In Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, R. Douglas Hurt presents for the first time the life of this ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900

    by Prof. R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Winner of the 2024 Jon Gjerde PrizeAfter 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 ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • A Companion to American Agricultural History

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for researchA Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America's complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative ... Read more

    $161.00 USD

  • Documents of the Dust Bowl

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series Eyewitness to History
    This book provides a unique, thorough, and indispensable resource for anyone investigating the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl.During the 1930s, drought and the cultivation of submarginal lands created a severe wind-erosion problem in the southern Great Plains, a region that became known as the Dust Bowl. During the worst dust storms, the blowing soil often turned day into night. Some ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Green Revolution in the Global South

    Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green RevolutionThe Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, pesticides, herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields and feed a mushrooming human ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Agriculture and the Confederacy

    Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Food and Agriculture during the Civil War

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    This book provides a perspective into the past that few students and historians of the Civil War have considered: agriculture during the Civil War as a key element of power.The Civil War revolutionized the agricultural labor system in the South, and it had dramatic effects on farm labor in the North relating to technology. Agriculture also was an element of power for both sides during the Civil ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Big Empty

    The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century

    by R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series The Modern American West
    The Great Plains, known for grasslands that stretch to the horizon, is a difficult region to define. Some classify it as the region beginning in the east at the ninety-eighth or one-hundredth meridian. Others identify the eastern boundary with annual precipitation lines, soil composition, or length of the grass. In The Big Empty, leading historian R. Douglas Hurt defines this region using the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Union Heartland

    The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War

    by Brett Barker, Nicole Etcheson, Michael P. Gray, R. Douglas Hurt, Julie A. Mujic ...
    The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical term. In this welcome collection, seven Civil War scholars offer a unique regional perspective on the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Service as Mandate

    How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

    by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Melissa Walker, Robert C. McMath0, R. Douglas Hurt1, Mr. Hamilton Cravens2, Mr. Stephanie Statz3 ...
    Series Book 2 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD