Walking the broad highway
1956
Eastman, E. R. (Edward Roe)
"This book is not so much a history of agriculture in the past fifty years as a history of the men and women who directly or indirectly built the agricultural structure we know and have today. It is an attempt to look backwards along the road we have traveled and to think with you about some of the astonishing changes that have entirely altered our lives from what they were a few brief years ago. Why write such a book? Because the only way to attack the problems of the present and the future is by studying those of the past. History does repeat itself, not in details but in principles. For human nature never changes, and humans make history. That is why I like to remember the men who made history, particularly the rural history of the past half century. That history has never been written. Because the first 25 years of this century, that is from 1900 to 1925, set the stage and the atmosphere for all the changes that have come since, in the early chapters of thsi book I have tried to give you the feeling and the understanding of what life was like durin gthose first 25 years. Some knowledge of the way rural people worked and lived in those yars written from the personal experience of a country boy and man, may help the reader to an understanding of the great changes that have come since." -- From the introduction.
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出版者 American agriculturist | [Ithaca, N.Y.] American agriculturist [1956]
