Ox Cart to Automobile : Social Change in Western New York
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0761845887
ISBN-13
9780761845881
Publisher
University Press of America
Imprint
University Press of America
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2009
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
313 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.40 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Social issues & processesPopulation & demography
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This book explores changes in economic fortunes, social life, and political issues over 200 years in western New York, tracing the ways in which people's lives changed as transportation evolved from the ox cart to the automobile.
This book explores changes in economic fortunes, social life, and political issues over 200 years in western New York. Why did villages spring up in particular locations in 1820? Why did dairy farming expand during the 1850s and then contract in the 1920? Why have so many factories in western New York closed their doors since World War II? As the ox cart was replaced by the railroad, which in turn was replaced by the automobile, men and women in western New York were faced with the option to choose to farm in new ways or live and work in new places. In this book, Native Americans and early settlers, dairy farmers and milk factories, husbands and wives on the farm, shopkeepers and customers in the villages are viewed as players in a social game, each trying to score well.
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