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Author Wuthnow, Robert.

Title Remaking the heartland : Middle America since the 1950s / Robert Wuthnow.

Imprint Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  330.977 W969r 2011    ---  Available
Description xiii, 358 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index.
Contents Here in the middle -- Recovering from the Great Depression -- Reinventing the rustic life -- Education in Middle America -- The decline of small communities -- The changing face of agribusiness -- From towns to sprawling suburbs.
Summary Studies the fifty years starting in the 1950s in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
Subject Middle West -- Economic conditions.
Middle West -- Social conditions.
Agriculture -- Middle West.
Social change -- Middle West.
Community development -- Middle West.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Middle West.
ISBN 9780691146119 (hardback : alk. paper)
069114611X (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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