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Overview"The Fate of Family Farming employs a hands-on approach, with much local New England detail, in its exploration of the history and future of American family farming as an idea and as an ongoing way of life. Early chapters situate family farming within American history, beginning with Jamestown and Plymouth, continuing with Jefferson and Emerson and others, and including the technological transformations during the twentieth century. An extended chapter deals with the idea of ""agrarianism,"" and considers in detail the work of Louis Bromfield, Victor Hanson, and Wendell Berry. The middle section of the book opens a window on present-day farming with detailed portraits of four farms devoted, respectively, to the production of maple syrup, eggs and corn, milk, and apples. The author takes the reader to the barns and fields of these farms, introduces the farm families, helps the reader taste the syrup and corn and smell the silage and-ultimately enables others to see the economic and ecological challenges that farmers today face, and to consider their strategies for survival. In the last portion of the book the author provides a very accessible examination of the role of farm technology and global economics, including the many ironies of farming""success,"" followed by a chapter that balances the threat and promise of biotechnology, and a concluding analysis of the current struggle for ""the soul of agriculture.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald JagerPublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: University Press of New England Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781584650270ISBN 10: 1584650273 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 22 September 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[A] lively and readable book that includes insights into classical mythology, contemporary agrarian literature, case studies of niche farming, and a penetrating analysis of agribusiness that will deeply disturb the reader, even if there are some hopeful signs of change . . . It would be hard to find anything comparable to his small volume even in an edited anthology on farming. Virginia Quarterly Review [A] lively and readable book that includes insights into classical mythology, contemporary agrarian literature, case studies of niche farming, and a penetrating analysis of agribusiness that will deeply disturb the reader, even if there are some hopeful signs of change . . . It would be hard to find anything comparable to his small volume even in an edited anthology on farming. --Virginia Quarterly Review Author InformationRonald Jager, formerly a professor of Philosophy at Yale University, grew up on his family farm in Michigan. He has written books on philosophy and history and numerous essays, and is the author of Eighty Acres (1990) and Last House on the Road (1994). He lives with his wife in Washington, New Hampshire. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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