French Peasant Fascism
French Peasant Fascism

Author: Robert O. Paxton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195111893

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In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French perception of themselves as a peasant nation.

Harvesting the High Plains
Harvesting the High Plains

Author: H. Craig Miner

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Historian Craig Miner recounts the story of a former field hand whose joint enterprise with Wichita entrepreneur Ray Garvey created an agricultural wheat empire which still operates today. Miner details the daily decisions the men made which led to their success, as well as treating philosophical and historical questions about the relationship between agriculture and nature in a semi-arid region. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

Author: Jerry Stanley

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0307792471

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Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.