Background
Hargreaves, Mary-Wilma Massey was born on March 1, 1914 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Albert Edward and Bess (Childs) Massey.
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Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings." Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest. The volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.
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Grandiose plans for land retirement and expanded irrigation have been frequently proposed for the northern Great Plains, but they have not significantly affected agricultural practices in the region. Those major readjustments to farming methods that did occur in the region evolved out of local initiative in response to drought and depression during the 1920s. With some refinements but few amendments, procedures remain basically the same today. In Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains, Mary Hargreaves reviews the changes in agricultural technology and farm management through the 1920s, the introduction of federal programs as drought and depression recurred in the 1930s, and the realignment of concerns from drought to marketing instability during the recovery years that followed. Drought remains a perennial problem in the region, which in this study includes the eastern two-thirds of Montana and the western half of the Dakotas. But instability of marketing has been a greater concern, according to Hargreaves, and marketing, not environmental factors, occasioned the land retirement programs of the 1950s and 1980s. Despite the economy and practicability of dry farming, the national agricultural policy of acreage restrictions since the 1930s has promoted the use of costly inputs and enabled higher-cost producers to continue competitive operation. "Misconceptions and myths have too frequently entered into national land-use planning," Hargreaves writes. "There are still those who see the Plains as a 'Great American Desert'; still those who look to irrigation as the only basis for successful agriculture there; and still those who cherish the small diversified homestead operation as the agrarian dream, regardless of the environment." Dry farming has proved successful in the northern Great Plains, Hargreaves contends. That success is measured not only by production but also by limited erosion. On its record, dry-land agriculture should not now fall prey to "hyperbole, myth, or politics."
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Hargreaves, Mary-Wilma Massey was born on March 1, 1914 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Albert Edward and Bess (Childs) Massey.
Bachelor, Bucknell University, 1935. Master of Arts, Radcliffe College/Harvard University, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, Radcliffe College/Harvard University, 1951.
Research editor, Harvard University Graduate School Business Administration, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1937-1939;
fellow, Brookings Institute, Washington, 1939-1940;
associate editor Clay Papers, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1952-1974;
co-editor, project director Clay Papers, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1974-1979;
assistant professor of history, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1964-1969;
associate professor, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1969-1973;
professor, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1973-1984;
Hallam professor of history, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1973-1975;
professor emerita, U. Kentucky, Lexington, since 1984. Editorial board Great Plains Quarterly, 1986-1988. Executive Committee Agricultural History Society, 1975-1978.
Participant in numerous symposiums.
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Member American History Association (committee chairman), Organisation of America Historians (committee chairman), Agricultural History Society (president 1975-1976, committee chairman), Southern History Association (committee chairman), Economics History Association, Society Early American History, Kentucky History Society, Montana History Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Herbert Walter Hargreaves, August 24, 1940 (deceased July 1998).