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Farm boys: lives of gay men from the rural Midwest

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Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United Sta…

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Farm boys: lives of gay men from the rural Midwest

fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE

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Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliché by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United Sta…

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Sex in the heartland

by Bailey, Beth L.

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"Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas." "Bailey fundamentally challenges contemporary perceptions of the revolution as simply a triumph of free love and promiscuity. Rather, she expl…

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Sweet tyranny: migrant labor, industrial agriculture, and imperi…

by Mapes, Kathleen

fromWorking class in American history

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In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kathleen Mapes explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign market labour.

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Woman suffrage et citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

by Egge, Sara

fromIowa and the Midwest experience

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Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach tha…

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From warm center to ragged edge: the erosion of midwestern literary and historical…

by Lauck, Jon

fromIowa and the Midwest experience

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"During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the …

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From warm center to ragged edge: the erosion of midwestern literary and historical…

by Lauck, Jon

fromIowa and the Midwest experience

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"During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the …

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Sowing the American dream: how consumer culture took root in the rural midwe…

by Blanke, David

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"By focusing on the consumer behavior of Midwestern farmers, Sowing the American Dream provides illustrative examples of how Americans came to terms with the economic and ideological changes that swirled around them. From the formation of the Grange to the advent of mail-order c…

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Between Islam and the American dream: an immigrant Muslim community in post-9/11 America

by Wang, Yuting, (Professor)

fromRoutledge advances in sociology

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"Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigrants from diverse backgrounds negotiate multiple identities while seeking to be…

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The ecology of agricultural landscapes: long-term research on the path to sustainability

fromLong-Term Ecological Research Network series

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Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradatio…

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The midwestern pastoral: place and landscape in literature of the American…

by Barillas, William David

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"Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explains…