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Canning Gold
Paul B Frederic
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Description for Canning Gold
Hardback. Canning Gold is a meticulously researched examination of how sweet corn canning helped shape the economy, landscape and people of rural Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont during the "corn shop century," 1860-1960's. Paul Frederic powerfully demonstrates the strong community bond essential for the industry's initial success. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
Canning Gold is a meticulously researched examination of how sweet corn canning helped shape the economy, landscape and people of rural Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont during the "corn shop century," 1860-1960's. Paul Frederic powerfully demonstrates the strong community bond essential for the industry's initial success. Interviews with farmers, factory owners and cannery workers who raised and packed the corn, combined with the written record, and Frederic's insight derived from growing up in the shadow of a corn shop, enrich the work and trace various threads linking local patterns to regional, national and global forces.
Canning Gold is a meticulously researched examination of how sweet corn canning helped shape the economy, landscape and people of rural Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont during the "corn shop century," 1860-1960's. Paul Frederic powerfully demonstrates the strong community bond essential for the industry's initial success. Interviews with farmers, factory owners and cannery workers who raised and packed the corn, combined with the written record, and Frederic's insight derived from growing up in the shadow of a corn shop, enrich the work and trace various threads linking local patterns to regional, national and global forces.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761821991
SKU
V9780761821991
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Ref
99-15
About Paul B Frederic
Paul B. Frederic is Professor of Geography at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Reviews for Canning Gold
The manuscript is excellent; very well written, very carefully researched and most insightful. . . a very, very nice job!>
John Jakle, University of Illinois I'll be pleased to add 'Canning Gold' to those books that I will keep in my small home library because it integrates and explains many of the variables of change in the interrelationships between ... Read more
John Jakle, University of Illinois I'll be pleased to add 'Canning Gold' to those books that I will keep in my small home library because it integrates and explains many of the variables of change in the interrelationships between ... Read more