American Farming Culture and the History of Technology

Joshua T. Brinkman

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Routledge
06 May 2024

History of the Americas; Primary industries; History of engineering & technology; Agricultural science; Agricultural engineering & machinery

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.

Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing about change and ignore how people embed technology with social meaning. This book, however, shows how farmers use technology to express their identities in unspoken ways and provides a framework for bridging the current rural-urban divide by presenting a fresh perspective on rural cultural practices. Focusing on German and Jeffersonian farmers in the 18th century and Corn Belt producers in the 1920s, the Cold War, and the recent period of globalization, this book traces how farmers formed their own versions of rural modernity. Rural people use technology to contest urban modernity and debunk yokel stereotypes and women specifically employed technology to resist urban gender conceptions. This book shows how this performance of rural identity through technological use impacts a variety of current policy issues and business interests surrounding contemporary agriculture from the controversy over genetically modified organisms and hog confinement facilities to the growth of wind energy and precision technologies. Inspired by the author's own experience on his family’s farm, this book provides a novel and important approach to understanding how farmers’ culture has changed over time, and why machinery is such a potent part of their identity.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agricultural history, technology and policy, rural studies, the history of science and technology, and the history of farming culture in the USA.

By: Joshua T. Brinkman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781032637945
ISBN 10: 1032637943
Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 06 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joshua T. Brinkman is Adjunct Professor of History at Elon University and Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, USA. His work examines how technology and identity shape one another as well as energy, environmental, and agricultural law and policy. He is a contributing author in the Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions.