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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2006
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From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur
The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture

By Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 356. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00.)

Occasionally there comes along a book that challenges us to reevaluate long-held assumptions about an area of study. Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott's From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur is such a work. In seven compact chapters, the authors dissect a prodigious quantity of research and construct a bold new synthesis of the restructuring of twentieth-century midwestern farming and rural life by the forces of technology, economic change, and government policy. In the process the authors shatter numerous myths and misconceptions rooted in Jeffersonian agrarian fundamentalism. . . .
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