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Tickamyer, Ann, et al. Rural Poverty in the United States (2017) U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers in a changing world (1940) 1240 pp of articles by experts in agriculture and rural life online; Vidich, Arthur J., and Joseph Bensman. Small town in mass society; class, power, and religion in a rural community (1960), in upstate New York online
Although the eastern image of farm life on the prairies emphasizes the isolation of the lonely farmer and farm life, rural folk created a rich social life for themselves. They often sponsored activities that combined work, food, and entertainment such as barn raisings , corn huskings, quilting bees, grange meeting, church activities, and school ...
Southern income rose from 59% to 65%. Dewey Grantham says the war, "brought an abrupt departure from the South's economic backwardness, poverty, and distinctive rural life, as the region moved perceptively closer to the mainstream of national economic and social life." [164]
1791–1800: 79,000; 1801–1810: 124,000 [139] 1810–1865: 51,000; Total: 583,000; About 305,326 slaves were transported to America, or less than 2% of the 12 million slaves taken from Africa. The great majority went to sugarcane-growing colonies in the Caribbean and Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be ...
Much of the Antebellum South was rural, and in line with the plantation system, largely agricultural. With the exception of New Orleans , Charleston , and Richmond the slave states had no large cities, and the urban population of the South could not compare to that of the Northeast , or even that of the agrarian West.
Here's what people who left big cities in favor of rural life say about the pros and cons — and what experts make of the trend. The motivation Erin Austen Abbott wrote the book (literally) on ...
In the late 20th century there arose a new school, associated with the journal Rural History. Led by Alun Howkins, [3] it links rural Britain to a wider social history. Burchardt calls for a new countryside history, paying more attention to the cultural and representational aspects that shaped 20th-century rural life. [4]
The rural economy of New England: a regional study (1950) online online; Cenkl, Pavel, ed. Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast (University of Iowa Press, 2010). Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983), highly influential book ...