The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa L. Ossian

• Autore: Ossian Lisa L. <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Columbia, Mo., : University of Missouri, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.7/032
• Soggetto topico: Depressions - 1929 - Iowa; Depressions - 1929 - United States; Agriculture - Iowa - History; Coal mines and mining - Iowa
• Soggetto geografico: Iowa History 20th century; Iowa Economic conditions 20th century; Iowa Rural conditions
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Main traveled gravel roads" : an Iowa tour before the fall, 1929 -- October 1929: the stock market plummets : echoes during the fall plowing: Iowa's reactions to the Wall Street crash -- Welfare : renewed concerns, new prescriptions: politics of farm children's health -- Domesticity : making do: farm women's coping through creative homemaking -- Art : "An Athens of sorts": poetry of place and farm playlets -- Industry : the angry, fading district thirteen: the demise of soft-coal mining -- Violence : gangsters, bandits, mad men, and suicides: fear, anger, and death within a troubled landscape -- Policy : prohibition possibly prohibited: voicing temperance concerns -- November 1932: the presidential farm campaigns : dealing anew or same stacked deck? -- The depth yet the crest : Iowa's dilemmas by 1933 -- "Too much" and "too little" : rural Iowa after 1933.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933
• ISBN: 0-8262-7268-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790020503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II