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The Farm at Holstein Dip. An Iowa Boyhood.
Carroll Engelhardt
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Description for The Farm at Holstein Dip. An Iowa Boyhood.
Paperback. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life in the US of the 1940s and 1950s. Series: Bur Oak Books. Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir ... Read more
Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Series
Bur Oak Books
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609381172
SKU
V9781609381172
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About Carroll Engelhardt
Professor of history emeritus at Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, Carroll Engelhardt is the author of Gateway to the Northern Plains: Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead and 'On Firm Foundation Grounded': The First Century of Concordia College (1891-1991).
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