Hill Farms: Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont - Paperback
by Dona Brown
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dona BrownSeries:Environmental History of the NortheastPublish date:7/3/2025Pages:252
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781625348722ISBN-10:162534872XUPC:9781625348722Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:State & Local, Public Policy, 20th CenturySize:8.93 x 6.31 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC6FQ4AH28
Hill Farms: Surviving Modern Times in Early Twentieth-Century Vermont
There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex economic and environmental narrative, a story o...
Series: Environmental History of the Northeast
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Massachusetts PressISBN-13:9781625348722ISBN-10:162534872XUPC:9781625348722Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:State & Local, Public Policy, 20th CenturySize:8.93 x 6.31 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC6FQ4AH28
DONA BROWN is professor emerita of history at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America and Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century, and editor of A Tourist's New England: Travel Fiction, 1820-1920. She has contributed essays to The Routledge History of Rural America, New England: A...
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
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