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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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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