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The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There

Title Fruits of victory : the Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War / Elaine F. Weiss.
Edition First edition.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc.
Creation Date [2008]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
English
Content Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prelude: Liberty Day
Part One: The Girl With a Hoe Behind the Man With a Gun
1. The Right to Serve: A British Land Army
2. Female Preparedness
3. An Agricultural Army
4. Suffrage Agriculture
5. Soil Sisters
6. A Feminine Invasion of the Land: The Bedford Camp
7. Farmerettes and Hoover Helpers: Fall 1917
8. Women on the Land
9. A Hysterical Appeal
10. A Fine Propaganda: The Fair Farmerette and Her Publicity Machine
11. Enlist Now!
Part Two: The Patriot Farmerette
12. In Bifurcated Garb of Toil: California
13. Hortense Powdermaker in Maryland
14. Cultivating the Soothing Weed: Connecticut15. Libertyville: Illinois
16. Girls Who Thought Potatoes Grew on Trees: New England
17. The Farmerette in Wanamaker's Window: Selling the Land Army in New Jersey
18. Georgia Cotton
19. Harsh Terrain
20. Miss Diehl and the Wellesley Experiment Station
21. Tiller, Planter, Gleaner: New York
22. Marriage of Convenience
23. A Hungry World
24. Carry On
25. Farmerette Redux: 1919 and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
Extent 1 online resource (352 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2008
National Library system number 997010705836305171
MARC RECORDS
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