Jon K Lauck: 4 books
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly
The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers’ concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads...
The Lost Region
Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest’s crucial roles in the development of the entire country:...
Daschle vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
The story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as “the other big race of 2004.” Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the rival political ideologies that...
From Warm Center to Ragged Edge
The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post–World War II...