Global heartland cultivating the American century on the Midwestern farm
"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons explores how they assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential suste...
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : comrades in the heartland
- After the golden harvest : World War I and the postwar collapse
- A rainbow over the Pacific : Lend-Lease and a rebirth of agricultural exchange
- Necessary men : farm labor in wartime
- Global heartland : reimagining the Midwest in wartime
- Your feedlot touches the world : feeding the peace
- Epilogue : starving the red menace : anticommunist food relief.
