{"title":"R. Douglas Hurt","description":"R. Douglas Hurt was Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State University in Ames and is now Head of the History Department at Purdue University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 and Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie.","products":[{"product_id":"american-agriculture-a-brief-history-rev-ed-paperback","title":"American Agriculture: A Brief History, Rev. Ed. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367398932703,"sku":"9781557532817","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/reZ9XztigJ9781557532817.webp?v=1789106200"},{"product_id":"the-indian-frontier-1763-1846-paperback","title":"The Indian Frontier 1763-1846 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis synthesis of Indian-white relations west of the Appalachians from the end of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the Mexican War is not simply a story of whites versus Indians. The term \u003cem\u003ewhites\u003c\/em\u003e encompassed British, Spanish, and American settlers and governments, and the hundreds of Indian tribes who opposed them were no more unified than their European colonizers. The author focuses on relations among the British, the Spanish, the Americans, and Indian tribes in territories claimed by more than one of these groups, with particular emphasis on Indian tribes' pursuit of trade, peace, and guarantees of their land. Self-interest motivated all the players in these complex interactions, and when irreconcilable differences inevitably resulted these were settled by force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe broad chronological and geographical scope of this volume encompasses British efforts to enforce new settlement policies after their defeat of the French, the Spanish system of missions and presidios, trade in the Columbia River basin of the Pacific Northwest, the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, and the establishment of a strong military presence to defend the trade routes of the Great Plains. 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Nonagricultural historians have ignored it or treated it almost as an aside and unworthy of analysis, even when it is related to other war topics. Yet, the revolution had profound effects on American agriculture during the war and after. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Country People \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the many pieces of this story together in a synthesis that provides an overview of agriculture during the American Revolution--from 1774 until signing of the Peace of Paris on September 3, 1783. In so doing, preeminent agricultural historian R. Douglas Hurt asks (and answers) three essential questions: What did farmers do in their daily lives during the revolutionary years from 1774 to 1783? How did the war affect farmers and planters, and how did they influence the war? 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