The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 [electronic resource] / Lisa L. Ossian
- Author
- Ossian, Lisa L., 1962-
- Published
- Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2011.
- Physical Description
- xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- Contents
- "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.
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- ISBN
- 9780826219466 (alk. paper)
0826219462 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index.
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