The kingdom of God is like a farm
Nineteenth-century agrarians believed that community is more important than the individual and solidarity is more important than profit.
Remaking the Heartland, by Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow's social history of the
Midwest demonstrates how the values that emerged in the six decades
before 1950 were reshaped in the following six decades. In most ways Wuthnow gets it right.
Hollowing Out the Middle: The RuralBrainDrain and What It Means forAmerica
In the wake of the farm crisis of the 1980s, two New Jersey sociologists, Deborah and Frank Popper, ...