Gilbert Fite
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gilbert C. Fite was an American historian best known for his numerous works on American agricultural history. Fite's lengthy catalog included works that focused heavily on how farmers affected the political environment and broader American economy, both of which examined the political power that farmers wielded in various eras. Fite was a professor at the University of Oklahoma, held the Richard B. Russell Chair in American History at the University of Georgia, and was president of Eastern Illinois University from 1971 to 1976.
Gilbert Fite's Published Works
Published Works
- American Farmers: The New Minority (1981) (51)
- Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865 - 1980 (2009) (50)
- Opponents of War, 1917-1918 (1986) (38)
- Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America (1973) (36)
- The Farmers' Frontier, 1865-1900 (1968) (34)
- An economic history of the United States (1959) (25)
- George N. Peek and the Fight for Farm Parity (1954) (20)
- The Agricultural Regions of the United States (1955) (19)
- Richard B. Russell, Jr, Senator from Georgia (1991) (15)
- Cotton fields no more (1984) (14)
- Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: An Overview (1979) (11)
- History of Humble Oil and Refining Company. (1961) (9)
- Farmer Opinion and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933 (1962) (8)
- Development of the Cotton Industry by the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (1949) (7)
- The Historical Development of Agricultural Fundamentalism in the Nineteenth Century (1962) (7)
- The Historian as Teacher: Professional Challenge and Opportunity (1975) (6)
- Peter Norbeck, prairie statesman (2005) (5)
- American agriculture and farm policy since 1900 (1964) (5)
- Nevada's Key Pittman (1964) (5)
- M. L. Wilson and the Campaign for the Domestic Allotment@@@Federal Wheat Commodity Programs@@@A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration of 1939@@@C. Ben Ross and the New Deal in Idaho@@@Kansas in Turmoil, 1930-1936 (1971) (4)
- Farm to Factory: A History of the Consumers Cooperative Association (1966) (4)
- Pioneer Naturalist On The Plains: The Diary Of Elam Bartholomew, 1871 To 1934 (1998) (4)
- Republican strategy and the farm vote in the Presidential Champaign of 1896. (1960) (4)
- North Dakota: The Heritage of a People (1976) (4)
- Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines. By Richard C. Overton. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Pp. xxviii + 623. $10.00 (1966) (2)
- The McNary-Haugen Episode and the Triple-a (1960) (2)
- American Farm Policy, 1948-1973 (1977) (2)
- A history of the United States (2009) (2)
- Agricultural PioneeringIn Dakota: A Case Study (1981) (2)
- Voluntary Attempts to Reduce Cotton Acreage in the South, 1914-1933 (1948) (1)
- Feedlot Empire: Beef Cattle Feeding in Illinois and Iowa, 1840–1900: Whitaker, James W.: Ames: Iowa State University Press 202 pp., Publication Date: Spring 1975 (1975) (1)
- War Drums and Wagon Wheels (1966) (1)
- West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890 Craig Miner (1988) (1)
- Recent United States History (1972) (1)
- Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. (1992) (1)
- Beyond the Fence Rows: A History of Farmland Industries, Inc., 1929-1978 (1978) (1)
- Donald Worster. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press. 1979. Pp. x, 277. $14.95 (1980) (1)
- Oklahoma's Reconstruction League: An Experiment in Farmer-Labor Politics (1947) (1)
- American Farmers: The New Minority. (1983) (1)
- Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915–1922. By Robert L. Morlan. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. 408 pp. Illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and index. $5.75.) (1955) (1)
- Hamlin Garland and the farmers' frontier. (2012) (0)
- The Rise of the Dairy Industv in Wisconsin: A Study in Agricultural Change, 1820-1920 by Eric E. Lampard (1964) (0)
- A Life of John William Mackay (1951) (0)
- The Farm Debt Crisis of the 1980S: a Review Essay (1992) (0)
- The Great Plains (1961) (0)
- Samuel Claridge: Pioneering the Outposts of Zion (1988) (0)
- The Farmer in the Second World War. By Walter W. Wilcox. Foreword by Oscar C. Stine. (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State College Press, 1947. xii + 410 pp. Maps, charts, and index. $4.00.) (1948) (0)
- George N. Peek (1955) (0)
- Equality for the Farmer (1954) (0)
- Untapped sources of western agricultural history. (1962) (0)
- The Reluctant Farmer: The Rise of Agricultural Extension to 1914. By Roy V. Scott. Urbana, III., University of Illinois Press, 1970. Pp. xi + 362. $8.95 (1971) (0)
- The Charles L. Wood Agricultural History Lecture Series: Recent Trends in the United States Agricultural History. (1985) (0)
- The Governing of Agriculture Bruce L. Gardner (1983) (0)
- Shucks, Shocks, and Hominy Blocks, Corn as a Way of life in Pioneer America. By Nicholas P. Hardeman. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1981, xii + 271 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $20.00.) (1982) (0)
- The Troubled Farmer, 1850–1900: Rural Adjustment to Industrialism. By Earl W. Hayter. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1968. vii + 349 pp. Notes, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $8.50.) (1968) (0)
- Henry Cantwell Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture: 1921–1924. By Donald L. Winters. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. x + 313 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $8.95.) (1971) (0)
- Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression by Harris Gaylord Warren (1959) (0)
- Abundance (1960) (0)
- Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984.@@@Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980. (1986) (0)
- Essays on Western History in Honor of Elwyn B. Robinson. (Grand Forks: University of North Dakota Press, 1970. 86 pp. Illustration, notes, and bibliography. Paper, $2.00.) (1971) (0)
- Book Review:The Fruited Plain: The Story of American Agriculture Walter Ebeling (1981) (0)
- South Dakota Historical Collections and Report. Vol. XXV, 1950. Compiled by the State Historical Society. (Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society, 1951. 481 pp. Illustrations, maps, and index. $4.50.) (1952) (0)
- Book Review:Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940: A Study of Traditional Culture and Technological Change J. Sanford Rikoon (1989) (0)
- Prelude to Point Four. American Technical Missions Overseas, 1838-1938 (1955) (0)
- First Majority—Last Minority: The Transforming of Rural Life in America. By John L. Shover. (De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976. xix + 338 pp. Map, illustrations, chart, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical note, and index. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $5.00.) (1977) (0)
- The Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (1958) (0)
- Joseph W. Folk of Missouri. By Louis G. Geiger. (Columbia: The Curators of the University of Missouri, 1953. 206 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $2.50 paper, $3.25 cloth.) (1953) (0)
- The Farm Issue (1956) (0)
- The Advance of American Cooperative Enterprise: 1920–1945. By Joseph G. Knapp. (Danville, Ill.: Interstate, 1973. 646 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $9.95.) (1975) (0)
- An Early View of the Land-Grant Colleges: Convention of Friends of Agricultural Education in 1871 by Richard A. Hatch (1968) (0)
- Readings in American History (1984) (0)
- American Business in the Twentieth Century. By Thomas C. Cochran. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. vi + 259 pp. Notes and index. $11.95.) (1974) (0)
- Review of The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and SocialHistory By R. Douglas Hurt (1983) (0)
- Technology in Early America by Brooke Hindle and Lucius F. Ellsworth (1967) (0)
- Roosevelt's Farmer: Claude R. Wickard in the New Deal. By Dean Albertson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. xii + 424 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $6.00.) (1962) (0)
- Not So Long Ago — Reminiscence and Review (1984) (0)
- A Southern Rebel, The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890–1965 by John A. Salmond (1985) (0)
- Review of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe and Over a Century of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors (1990) (0)
- Failure On The Last Frontier: A Family Chronicle (1987) (0)
- The Enterprise of a Free People: Aspects of Economic Development in New York State during the Canal Period, 1792–1838 by Nathan Miller; Canals and American Economic Development. by Carter Goodrich (1962) (0)
- A New Plantation South Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas (review) (2012) (0)
- The Changing Political Role of the Farmer (1956) (0)
- Books reviewed: The world of Andrew Carnegie, 1865–1901: The odyssey of Louis M. Hacker∗ (1969) (0)
- The Wealth of the American People: A History of American Affluence (1976) (0)
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