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Page vii
... changes in American agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - changes which have consistently taken American society away from the conditions necessary for Jeffersonian agrarianism . In broad terms , these changes ...
... changes in American agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - changes which have consistently taken American society away from the conditions necessary for Jeffersonian agrarianism . In broad terms , these changes ...
Page xi
... changes , probably the total effect of change , seemed to strengthen the position of agriculture as a component of American society . In public affairs , agriculture had an important role . By tradition , farmers were expected to be ...
... changes , probably the total effect of change , seemed to strengthen the position of agriculture as a component of American society . In public affairs , agriculture had an important role . By tradition , farmers were expected to be ...
Page 152
... changes in the sharecropping system , while the corporate farmers of California and their allies in the Chambers of Com- merce criticized the camps for migratory workers . As constitutional rights were re- spected in the camps , they ...
... changes in the sharecropping system , while the corporate farmers of California and their allies in the Chambers of Com- merce criticized the camps for migratory workers . As constitutional rights were re- spected in the camps , they ...
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