• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Modern Homesteaders : The Life of a Twentieth-Century Frontier Community
  • Contributor: Vogt, Evon Zartman [Author]
  • Published: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955
    1955
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (XI, 232 S.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674366312
  • ISBN: 9780674366312
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  • Keywords: Agriculture ; Politik ; Rural conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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  • Description: Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- GRAPHS -- MAP -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Introduction -- PART I. THE SITUATION -- 1. The Geography and Demography of Homestead -- 2. The Economy of Homestead -- PART II. THE VALUES AND THE COMMUNITY -- 3. Hopeful Mastery Over Nature -- 4. Living in the Future -- 5. Working and Loafing -- 6. Group Superiority and Inferiority -- 7. The Atomistic Social Order -- 8. Conclusions -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX