IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/agrhuv/v4y1987i1p4-26.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Up to now: A history of American Agriculture from Jefferson to revolution to crisis

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Kirkendall

Abstract

Written as a contribution to the Social Science Agricultural Agenda Project, this essay in historical interpretation assumes that the main contribution that historians can make to the planning process is to describe and explain how the situation facing the planners came to be. Organized around three concepts—Jeffersonian or democratic agrarianism, the Great American Agricultural Revolution, and the farm crisis of the 1980s, the main implication of the paper may be that Jeffersonianism, once so filled with promise, now gets in the way of realistic thinking about farming and rural life. To implement agrarian values in existing circumstances, we would need to do more than end the crisis. We would need to move back against the revolution. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1987

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Kirkendall, 1987. "Up to now: A history of American Agriculture from Jefferson to revolution to crisis," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 4(1), pages 4-26, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:4:y:1987:i:1:p:4-26
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01535213
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/BF01535213
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/BF01535213?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bogue, Allan G., 1983. "Changes in Mechanical and Plant Technology: The Corn Belt, 1910–1940," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(1), pages 1-25, March.
    2. Willard W. Cochrane, 1985. "The Need to Rethink Agricultural Policy in General and to Perform Some Radical Surgery on Commodity Programs in Particular," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 67(5), pages 1002-1009.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Harvey S. James, 2023. "Agriculture and human values at 40 years: reflections on its scale and scope," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 40(1), pages 25-30, March.
    2. Paul Thompson, 1988. "Ethical dilemmas in agriculture: The need for recognition and resolution," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 5(4), pages 4-15, September.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Don Hadwiger, 1986. "The politics of agricultural abundance," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 3(4), pages 99-107, September.
    2. Davan, Clarence F., 1988. "Identification and Prioritization of Researchable Questions In Agricultural Economics," 1988 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Knoxville, Tennessee 337314, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    3. Schreinemachers, Pepijn & Potchanasin, Chakrit & Berger, Thomas & Roygrong, Sithidech, 2009. "The declining profitability of litchi orchards in northern Thailand: Can innovations reverse the trend?," 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China 50954, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Gladwin, Christina H., 1988. "Assessing The Impacts Of Technology On Southern Agriculture And Rural Communities: Discussion," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 20(1), pages 1-3, July.
    5. Archibald, Sandra O. & McCalla, Alex F. & McCorkle Jr., Chester O., 1985. "Trends In The U.S. Food Processing Industry: Implications For Modelling And Policy Analysis In A Dynamic Interactive Environment," 1985 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Ames, Iowa 278667, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    6. Thomas Daniels, 1989. "A rationale for the support of the medium-sized family farm," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 6(4), pages 47-53, September.
    7. Teigen, Lloyd D., 1988. "Agricultural Policy, Technology Adoption, and Farm Structure," Staff Reports 278118, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    8. Lafortune, Jeanne & Tessada, José & González-Velosa, Carolina, 2015. "More hands, more power? Estimating the impact of immigration on output and technology choices using early 20th century US agriculture," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 339-358.
    9. Peter Nedergaard, 2006. "Market Failures and Government Failures: A Theoretical Model of the Common Agricultural Policy," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 385-405, June.
    10. Fertő, Imre, 1996. "A mezőgazdaság a piacgazdaságban [Agriculture in a market economy]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(2), pages 114-127.
    11. Henry, Mark S., 1986. "Agriculture'S Stake In Rural Economic Development," Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 15(2), pages 1-11, October.
    12. Runge, C. Ford, 1986. "How To Pay For Agricultural Income Supports," Staff Papers 13368, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:4:y:1987:i:1:p:4-26. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.