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PROVIDES A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY AND OFFERS NEW DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH A Companion to American Agricultural History provides readers with a solid foundation for understanding America's complex agricultural past. Broad in topical and historical scope, the volume brings together more than thirty original essays exploring the key aspects of American agriculture from 8, 000 BCE to the present. The Compa...

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Here is a compact narrative history of American agriculture over the last century.

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The most thorough and comprehensive treatment of American Indian agriculture in print, multidisciplinary and impressive both in scope and in depth". -- Richard White, author of "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own". "Hurt's chapters on Indian agriculture and water rights in the twentieth century are timely and instructive". -- New Mexico Historical Review.

During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the exp...

Celebrated as one of American's frontier heroes, Daniel Boone left a legacy that made the Boone name almost synonymous with frontier settlement. This text presents the life story and achievements of his youngest son and important frontiersman, Nathan Boone.

The Great Plains, known for grasslands that stretch to the horizon, is a difficult region to define. In The Big Empty, R. Douglas Hurt defines this region using the towns and cities - Denver, Lincoln, and Fort Worth - that made a difference in the history of the environment, politics, and agriculture of the Great Plains.

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This collection of essays surveys the changes in farms, small towns and reservations throughout the American West during the post-war era. Topics covered include: cattle industry, agriculture, migrant labour, environmental concerns, social change, ranch and farm women, and reservation life.

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In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power.

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R. Douglas Hurt is a professor and head of the Department of History at Purdue University. He is the author of many books, including The Indian Frontier, 1763¿1846 and Problems of Plenty: The American Farmer in the Twentieth Century.

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R.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. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, ...

The Ohio FrontierCrucible of the Old Northwest, 1720--1830 R. Douglas Hurt "Thisexhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history ofOhio from 1720 to 1830." -- Journal of the EarlyRepublic Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash ofcultures more violent than in the Ohio country. There, Shawnees, Wyandots, Delawares, and other native peoples fought to preserve their land claims against anarmy that was incompet...