Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes
Winner, 2018 Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Winner, 2020 SAH Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania’s history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in than more sixty years and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly economic approach and considers the diverse forces that helped shape the farming landscape, from physical factors to cultural repertoires to labor systems. Above all, the people who created and worked on Pennsylvania’s farms are placed at the center of attention. More than 150 photographs inform the interpretation, which offers a sweeping look at the evolution of Pennsylvania’s agricultural landscapes right up to the present day.
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Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes
Winner, 2018 Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Winner, 2020 SAH Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania’s history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in than more sixty years and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly economic approach and considers the diverse forces that helped shape the farming landscape, from physical factors to cultural repertoires to labor systems. Above all, the people who created and worked on Pennsylvania’s farms are placed at the center of attention. More than 150 photographs inform the interpretation, which offers a sweeping look at the evolution of Pennsylvania’s agricultural landscapes right up to the present day.
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Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes

Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes

by Sally McMurry
Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes

Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes

by Sally McMurry

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Winner, 2018 Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Winner, 2020 SAH Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
Since precolonial times, agriculture has been deeply woven into the fabric of Pennsylvania’s history and culture. Pennsylvania Farming presents the first history of Pennsylvania agriculture in than more sixty years and offers a completely new perspective. Sally McMurry goes beyond a strictly economic approach and considers the diverse forces that helped shape the farming landscape, from physical factors to cultural repertoires to labor systems. Above all, the people who created and worked on Pennsylvania’s farms are placed at the center of attention. More than 150 photographs inform the interpretation, which offers a sweeping look at the evolution of Pennsylvania’s agricultural landscapes right up to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822945154
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 12/12/2017
Edition description: 1
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Sally McMurry is professor emerita of history at Pennsylvania State University and former president of the Agricultural History Society. She is the author of a number of books on landscape and architectural history, including most recently From Sugar Camps to Star Barns: Rural Life and Landscape in a Western Pennsylvania Community.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Part I Beginnings

Chapter 1 Colonial Pennsylvania Farming and the Atlantic World 3

Chapter 2 Transformations in the New Republic, circa 1780-1830 19

Part II The Era of Regionalism, Circa 1830-1910

Chapter 3 Pennsylvania's Farming Regions Evolve 39

Chapter 4 Farm and City in Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1830-1910 49

Chapter 5 Transformations on the Lancaster Plain: The Rise of America's "Banner County" 62

Chapter 6 A Different Rhythm: York and Adams Counties 79

Chapter 7 Landlords and Tenants in the Ridge and Valley Region 95

Chapter 8 The Susquehanna Lowlands: A Little Bit of Everything 112

Chapter 9 Grassland Farming in the Northern Tier 124

Chapter 10 Northwestern Pennsylvania: "A Hard Soil and a Fickle Climate" 141

Chapter 11 Southwestern Pennsylvania: Riding a Wool Wave 153

Chapter 12 Farms, Mines, and Industry on the Allegheny Mountain Plateau 166

Part III The Diverse Landscapes of Modernization, Circa 1910-1965

Chapter 13 Modernization Comes to the Pennsylvania Farm 185

Chapter 14 Cows and Chickens: Statewide Trends toward Dairy and Poultry Production 193

Chapter 15 Persistent Localism: Local Marketing and Farm Household Self-Provisioning, circa 1910-1965 216

Chapter 16 Potatoes in Dutch Country: Lehigh County, circa 1910-1960 228

Chapter 17 Potter County, Unlikely Stop on the "Florida Itinerary" 241

Chapter 18 Provisioning Tourists: Farming in the Pocono Region, circa 1865-1960 255

Chapter 19 The Lake Erie Fruit and Vegetable Belt 269

Chapter 20 Apples in Adams: The Rise of the Adams County Fruit Belt, 1875-1960 283

Chapter 21 Mushroom Country: How a Fungus Became Pennsylvania's Top "Vegetable" 299

Chapter 22 Amish Farming Landscapes 314

Part IV Pennsylvania Farming in the Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 23 Swimming with the Agricultural Mainstream: Pennsylvania Farm Landscapes since 1960 335

Chapter 24 Alternative Voices 355

Epilogue 366

Notes 373

Bibliography 409

Index 451

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