Title When a dream dies : agriculture, Iowa, and the farm crisis of the 1980s / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Published Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Introduction -- The go-go seventies -- From fencerow to fencerow to failure: 1979-1983 -- The year of realization: 1983 -- From penny auctions to a declaration of emergency: 1985 -- From fears of violence to glimmers of hope: 1986 -- From crisis to chronic: 1987-1993 -- Epilogue: last-generation farmers Summary Iowa in the 1980s--the state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and small town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and communities were to endure, they would have to think about themselves, their farms, and their futures in new ways. When a Dream Dies examines the lives of ordinary Iowa farmers during the 1980s. For many Iowan families, this meant restructuring their lives or moving away from agriculture completely. Told from the perspective of Iowa, a state which arguably experienced the worst of the crisis, this project helps to explain how this disaster changed children, families, communities, and the development of the Midwest in the late twentieth century-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is professor and chair of the History Department at Iowa State University Print version record Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century Farm tenancy -- Economic aspects -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century Farmers -- Iowa -- Economic conditions HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Agriculture -- Economic aspects Economic history Farm tenancy -- Economic aspects Farmers -- Economic conditions SUBJECT Iowa -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Subject Iowa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2021058927 ISBN 0700633561 9780700633562

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