Moral geography in high plains history

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Abstract

When American society, through deliberate government action, intervenes to preserve the family farm as the locus of "good" human values and "authentic" environmental conditions, the result can be described as a moral geography. Nowhere is this clearer than in the protection of traditional farming on the High, or Great, Plains through federal funding and programs. Protection began during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s; federal support came to a close with the passage of the 1996 farm bill. These shifts deserve assessment of historic American interests in the protection of an agricultural institution and of a region at risk. Copyright © 1999 by the American Geographical Society of New York.

Identifier

0010327219 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Geographical Review

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.2307/215803

ISSN

00167428

First Page

241

Last Page

258

Issue

2

Volume

88

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