The parable of the railway agent: stories of progress and winter legumes in the twentieth-century South

IF 0.5 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2020-10-21 DOI:10.1080/13642529.2020.1829863

W. Okie

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay examines the abbreviated fiction-writing career of an unlikely author, Central of Georgia Railway agricultural agent Jesse Frisbie Jackson. In the process, the essay explores the centrality of storytelling to the early twentieth-century United States, to farming and agricultural reform, and to the historical profession.

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铁路代理人的寓言：二十世纪南方的进步和冬季豆类的故事

摘要：本文考察了一位不太可能的作家——佐治亚州中部铁路公司的农业经纪人杰西·弗里斯比·杰克逊（Jesse Frisbie Jackson）短暂的小说创作生涯。在此过程中，本文探讨了讲故事对20世纪初的美国、农业和农业改革以及历史职业的中心地位。

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