Discusses the ideological uses of agricultural imagery during the period 1780-1890, exploring how and why the myth of rural contentment was perpetuated by these images and how the images contrast with the actual features of 19th-century rural life.
- ISBN10 0300057733
- ISBN13 9780300057737
- Publish Date 24 November 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 May 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English