5 edition of Visions of American agriculture found in the catalog.
Published
1997
by Iowa State University in Ames
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | edited by William Lockeretz. |
| Contributions | Lockeretz, William. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | S441 .V57 1997 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xii, 243 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 243 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL659757M |
| ISBN 10 | 0813820448 |
| LC Control Number | 97005083 |
Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. As of the census of agriculture, there were million farms, covering an area of million acres (3,, km 2), an average of acres ( hectares) per farm.. Although agricultural activity occurs in every state in the union, it is particularly concentrated in the Great Plains, a vast expanse. See history. Explore history. Understand history. REVEL for Visions of America: A History of the United States uses images as primary historical evidence to bring history to life for a generation of visual learners. Emphasizing how key choices and competing visions of America shaped our nation’s past, authors Jennifer Keene, Saul Cornell, and Edward O’Donnell help students realize that.
(); Visions of American Agriculture, editor (); Ecolabels and the Greening of the Food Market, editor (). See also: Oral History Interview with William Lockeretz, AFSIC () (NAL Call #: Videocassette no). Annotation: This report was one of the first U.S. studies analyzing the economics of organic farming systems. Lockeretz. Visions of America also focuses on the many competing visions of America that have shaped American social, cultural and political history, and explores the tensions and conflicts that have marked virtually every chapter of American history. It presents history as a dynamic, unpredictable, and dramatic process shaped by the choices made by Availability: This title is out of print.
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ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: xii, pages: illustrations ; 24 cm: Contents: Past visions of American agriculture / David B. Danbom --Agrarian values: their future place in U.S. agriculture / Paul B.
Thompson --Farm families in a changing America / Peggy Barlett --Reconnecting farmers and citizens in the food system / Kate Clancy --Agricultural.
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