Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900 by Hurt, R. Douglas;

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Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication 1 July 2023
Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards

ISBN 9781496233493
Binding Hardback
No. of pages448 pages
Size 229x152 mm
Weight 718 g
Language English
Illustrations 9 photographs, 8 illustrations, 4 maps, index

Long description:

Winner of the 2024 Jon Gjerde Prize

After 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 midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region’s past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers-and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.