Beginning in 1820, settlers broke the tall grass prairies of mid-America. By the 1870s they had begun to use the term "Corn Belt" to describe much of the region. In From Prairie to Corn Belt, Allan G. Bogue chronicles this remarkable transformation and challenges the view that the post-Civil War period constituted thirty years of unrelieved agricultural depression. His book remains the only study of Midwestern agricultural development that focuses on the farmers themselves, the entire range of production problems they had to solve on their land, and the diversity of their responses.

About the Author
Allan G. Bogue became a professor emeritus in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991, after serving since 1968 at that institution as the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History. His other publications in agricultural history include Money at Interest: The Farm Mortgage on the Middle Border and many articles and book chapters. He is also the author of The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate, Clio and the Bitch Goddess: Quantification in American Political History, and other books and articles in American history and historiography. He has been president of the Organization of American Historians, the Agricultural History Society, and the Economic History Association. He was honored with a life membership in the Western History Association for his scholarly contributions to that field of history.


Book Information
ISBN 9781566638791
Author Allan G. Bogue
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Ivan R Dee, Inc
Publisher Ivan R Dee, Inc
Weight(grams) 449g
Dimensions(mm) 232mm * 154mm * 21mm