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This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm
(1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two
intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of
cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow
segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen
black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two
thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most
insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Thus began a
twenty-year experiment - across two communities - in
interracialism, Christian socialism, cooperative farming, and civil
and economic activism. Robert Hunt Ferguson recalls the genesis of
Delta and Providence: how they were modeled after cooperative farms
in Japan and Soviet Russia and how they rose in reaction to the
exploitation of small- scale, dispossessed farmers. Although the
staff, volunteers, and residents were very much everyday people - a
mix of Christian socialists, political leftists, union organizers,
and sharecroppers - the farms had the backing of such leading
figures as philanthropist Sherwood Eddy, who purchased the land,
and educator Charles Spurgeon Johnson and theologian Reinhold
Niebuhr, who served as trustees. On these farms, residents
developed a cooperative economy, operated a desegregated health
clinic, held interracial church services and labor union meetings,
and managed a credit union. Ferguson tells how a variety of factors
related to World War II forced the closing of Delta, while
Providence finally succumbed to economic boycotts and outside
threats from white racists. Remaking the Rural South shows how a
small group of committed people challenged hegemonic social and
economic structures by going about their daily routines. Far from
living in a closed society, activists at Delta and Providence
engaged in a local movement with national and international roots
and consequences.
A renowned chemist, photographer and scholar, Robert Hunt was a
passionate advocate of popular education and the ideal choice to
author an accessible and informative handbook to the greatest
educational event of the nineteenth century. Published in 1851,
while the Great Exhibition was still welcoming visitors in Hyde
Park, Hunt's Hand-Book is an encyclopaedia of Victorian material
science, chemistry, engineering and design. While an array of
catalogues, pamphlets and guides told the story of the exhibition's
conception and construction, Hunt reserved his pages for a detailed
and comprehensive account of the exhibits themselves. Consequently,
this two-volume work quickly established itself as the
authoritative guide to the exhibits, their manner of manufacture
and practical application in the modern world. Aided by a series of
meticulous plans, Volume 1 leads readers through the celebrated
Medieval Court and spectacular and varied displays of agricultural
produce, weaponry, and porcelain.
A renowned chemist, photographer and scholar, Robert Hunt was a
passionate advocate of popular education and the ideal choice to
write an accessible but informative handbook to the Great
Exhibition of 1851. Published while the event was still welcoming
visitors in Hyde Park, Hunt's Hand-Book is an encyclopaedia of
Victorian material science, chemistry, engineering and design.
Aided by small sectional plans of the building and tables of
classification, in Volume 2 readers continue their vicarious
journey through the Crystal Palace, while receiving clear and lucid
lessons on the physics, mechanics and chemistry that enable such
innovations as the hydro-pneumatic elevator and the railway system.
Including exhibits as varied as enamelled glassware, woven flax,
upholstery, diamonds and cement, Hunt's work constitutes one of the
most valuable sources available on an age defined by innovation,
industry and empire.
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