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A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929.

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture Since 1929.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A REVOLUTION DOWN ON THE FARM: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE SINCE 1929

By Paul K. Conkin (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008, 256 pp., $29.99 cloth)

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PAUL CONKIN'S A Revolution Down on the Farm provides an accessible overview of the evolution of American agriculture in the twentieth century that is personal as well. Having grown up on a small Tennessee farm, he contrasts the daily life of his childhood with farm life today.

How farming became corporate is Conkin's story, the story of an accretion of policies and programs, that have over time, created constituencies and dependencies, making change very difficult....

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