Tractor Wars
John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture
$51.33
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2025
Summary
“Mr. Dahlstrom…has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered.”
—Wall Street Journal
Discover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years.
Before John …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781637744987 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1637744986 |
| Author: | Neil Dahlstrom |
| Publisher: | BenBella Books |
| Imprint: | Matt Holt Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 340g |
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Neil Dahlstrom
Neil Dahlstrom is the author of The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), and Lincoln’s Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels, and a President’s Mission to Destroy the Press (Sourcebooks, 2005). Since the release of these two books he’s built a career in corporate archives, agricultural and brand history. Today, Neil is the Manager of Archives and History at John Deere, the most well-known agriculture equipment brand in the world.
Recently, Neil has held a variety of leadership positions in archival organizations, with colleagues in some of the most prestigious archives and museums. Currently, he’s a member of the Kitchen Cabinet, the Food and Agriculture Advisory Board of The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and chair of the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section, which includes more than five hundred corporate archivists.
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