Against All Odds

This book is a highly readable portrait of a contemporary agricultural community in the northwestern United States. It is ideal for undergraduate students and other readers from different areas of the country who may have no firsthand experience of agriculture and small community life.

John C Allen

Preface -- Confronting the Inevitable -- Locating Bremer: Influences of Space and Time -- Gaining Perspective: A Framework for Analysis -- Agriculture: Reconciliation of Making a Living, Government, and a Way of Life -- Bremer's Other Businesses: Each in Its Proper Place -- More Important than Government: The Community Club -- Gender: Women's Roles Have Changed, Most Men's Haven't -- Medical Care: Fulfilling the Old Doctor's Account and Getting a Replacement -- Education in Bremer: No Dropouts and a Winning Sports Program -- Religion: A Tradition Bypassed? -- Class and Social Life -- Community Expression and Renewal: The Bremer Fair and Stock Show -- Community in Bremer . . . and the United States -- Appendix Origins of This Study and the Research Methods