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Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Cooke, Kathy J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23367
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
76(3) : 524-545
Notes:
Article includes observations about the deskilling and disempowerment of farmers.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Shideler, James H. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1973
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19152
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
47 : 283-299
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Fry, John J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21087
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
78(1) : 34-49
Notes:
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Wolfe, Audra J. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21171
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
74(2) : 515-529
Notes:
Assesses the attitudes of rural people towards farm electrification in the United States between 1920-1940. Hesitation of farmers to adopt electricity; impact of electricity on landscape transformation; implication of electrification for farm modernization.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Colbert, Thomas B. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21172
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
74(2) : 530-544
Notes:
Focuses on the adoption of mechanical corn pickers by farmers in Iowa between 1900-1952. Implications of the develoopment on technological advances and economic motivations. Effects of mechanical corn pickers on corn harvest. Impact of the machinery on modern agricultural development.
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
MacFadyen, Joshua (author)
Format:
Book review
Publication Date:
2015
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D05851
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
89(1) : 153-154
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Whitten, David O. (author / Professor of Economics at Auburn University) and Professor of Economics at Auburn University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 66 Document Number: C02567
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
58(3) : 477-487
Notes:
Phase II
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Cochran, Clay (author) and Hadwiger, Don F. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14492
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
58 : 221-238
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Pederson, Jane Marie (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14463
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
58 : 347-364
Collection:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:
Fuller, Wayne E. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26756
Journal Title:
Agricultural History
Journal Title Details:
65(1) : 1-16