{"product_id":"next-year-country-jean-burnet-9780802063403","title":"Next-Year Country: A Study of Rural Social Organization in Alberta","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this study of the problems of social organization in a rural \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecommunity of Alberta, a drought-afflicted wheat-growing area centring round the town \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eof Hanna is described as it appeared to the sociologist in 1946.\u003cp\u003eDr Burnet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eexamines geographical and economic conditions in Hanna, and shows how farming \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epractices, ways of living, and modes of tenure brought into the area from more humid \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eregions proved ill adapted to the dry belt and delayed economic adjustment. In turn, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe difficulties in the realm of economics had adverse social and cultural \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003econsequences in both the households and the community as a whole.\u003cp\u003eThe Hanna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003earea was chosen for study, though not altogether typical, because it revealed more \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eclearly than other areas not so severely hit by the drought of the 1930s the kind of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edisturbances within the Alberta social structure which made possible the rise of the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSocial Credit movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Burnet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802063403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802063403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Jean Burnet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013787824383,"sku":"9780802063403","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2e2581e-be67-4175-bac3-ee6525c950b3.jpg?v=1767744768","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/next-year-country-jean-burnet-9780802063403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}