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A complicated kindness: the Iowa famine relief movement and the myth of Midwestern (and American) isolationism

Authors :
Bloodworth, Jeff
Source :
The Historian. Fall, 2011, Vol. 73 Issue 3, p480, 23 p.
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

IN DECEMBER 1892, America's ambassador to St. Petersburg wrote to an Iowa newsman regarding Russia's ongoing famine. Claiming peasant diets consisted of bread made from 'rye and straw, rye and [...]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00182370
Volume :
73
Issue :
3
Database :
Gale General OneFile
Journal :
The Historian
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsgcl.269228815