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Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940 : a study of traditional culture and technological change
- Title
- Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940 : a study of traditional culture and technological change / J. Sanford Rikoon.
- Author
- Rikoon, J. Sanford
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1988]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 214 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In this study of the interaction between agricultural mechanization and rural culture, J. Sanford Rikoon focuses his analysis on grain threshing patterns in the Midwest from its early nineteenth-century beginnings--manual flailing and animal treading--to the adoption of the combined harvester-thresher between 1925 and 1945. The "golden age of threshing" began in the late nineteenth century, when steam engines and threshing machines became familiar sights on the rural harvest landscape. Rikoon considers the succession of threshing systems in terms of the relations between specific technologies, occupational practices, and the social organization of work"--Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Midwestern history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Midwestern history and culture
- Subject
- Threshing > Middle West > History
- Agricultural innovations > Middle West > History
- Agricultural innovations
- Threshing
- Dreschen
- Technischer Fortschritt
- Agricultural innovations > Middle West > History
- Threshing > Middle West > History
- Battage > États-Unis > Middle West > Histoire
- Agriculture > Innovations > Histoire. > États-Unis > Middle West
- Geschichte (1820-1940)
- Middle West
- Mittlerer Westen
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [190]-207.
- Contents
- Flailing and treading -- The mechanization of threshing: initial adoption and accommodation -- Nineteenth-century stack threshing -- Twentieth-century shock threshing and threshing rings -- Threshing ring organization and formalization -- "Threshing was something social, too": food and practical-joking traditions of the threshing ring -- The continuity and decline of threshing rings -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0253360471
- 9780253360472
- LCCN
- 87045407
- OCLC
- ocm16352968
- 16352968
- SCSB-1701829
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library