Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940 a study of traditional culture and technological change /
"In this study of the interaction between agricultural mechanization and rural culture, J. Sanford Rikoon focuses his analysis on grain threshing patterns in the Midwest from its early nineteenth-century beginnings--manual flailing and animal treading--to the adoption of the combined harvester-...
| Main Author: | Rikoon, J. Sanford, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1988]
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series: |
Midwestern history and culture.
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| Summary: |
"In this study of the interaction between agricultural mechanization and rural culture, J. Sanford Rikoon focuses his analysis on grain threshing patterns in the Midwest from its early nineteenth-century beginnings--manual flailing and animal treading--to the adoption of the combined harvester-thresher between 1925 and 1945. The "golden age of threshing" began in the late nineteenth century, when steam engines and threshing machines became familiar sights on the rural harvest landscape. Rikoon considers the succession of threshing systems in terms of the relations between specific technologies, occupational practices, and the social organization of work"--Book jacket. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-207) and index. Flailing and treading -- The mechanization of threshing: initial adoption and accommodation -- Nineteenth-century stack threshing -- Twentieth-century shock threshing and threshing rings -- Threshing ring organization and formalization -- "Threshing was something social, too": food and practical-joking traditions of the threshing ring -- The continuity and decline of threshing rings -- Conclusion. "In this study of the interaction between agricultural mechanization and rural culture, J. Sanford Rikoon focuses his analysis on grain threshing patterns in the Midwest from its early nineteenth-century beginnings--manual flailing and animal treading--to the adoption of the combined harvester-thresher between 1925 and 1945. The "golden age of threshing" began in the late nineteenth century, when steam engines and threshing machines became familiar sights on the rural harvest landscape. Rikoon considers the succession of threshing systems in terms of the relations between specific technologies, occupational practices, and the social organization of work"--Book jacket. |
| Physical Description: |
xiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-207) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0253360471 9780253360472 |