The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 / Lisa L. Ossian.
| Author/creator | Ossian, Lisa L., 1962- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, |
| Description | xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "Main traveled gravel roads" : an Iowa tour before the fall, 1929 -- October 1929: the stock market plummets : echoes during the fall plowing: Iowa's reactions to the Wall Street crash -- Welfare : renewed concerns, new prescriptions: politics of farm children's health -- Domesticity : making do: farm women's coping through creative homemaking -- Art : "An Athens of sorts": poetry of place and farm playlets -- Industry : the angry, fading district thirteen: the demise of soft-coal mining -- Violence : gangsters, bandits, mad men, and suicides: fear, anger, and death within a troubled landscape -- Policy : prohibition possibly prohibited: voicing temperance concerns -- November 1932: the presidential farm campaigns : dealing anew or same stacked deck? -- The depth yet the crest : Iowa's dilemmas by 1933 -- "Too much" and "too little" : rural Iowa after 1933. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012464130 |
| ISBN | 9780826219466 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0826219462 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |