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Description: We Combine Shipping We Ship Daily Located In Ohio Contact us with any questions Christian Living Fiction Family Bibles Bible Study Ministry Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture $17.36 $25 New -- New with remainder mark. Buy multiples from our store to save on shipping. hardcover | Dahlstrom, Neil ISBN: 1953295746 | 9781953295743 Publisher: Matt Holt Ready to Buy? Buy it now or add to cart above Want to Browse? Add this item to your cart, then visit our store Save on Shipping More books means less shipping per book! Shop our store Description Shipping FAQ Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture "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 JournalDiscover 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 Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation?s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That?s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man?s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet?after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider?s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture?a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world. Items purchased by 9:00am each business day will ship that day from Ohio. The speed on media mail depends on your proximity to us with many orders arriving in a week. Media mail can take up to ten business days in the continental US, and longer for Alaska and Hawaii. USPS Media Mail (4-10 business days) $3.50 for first item plus $0.50 each additional item 1 item: $3.50 2 items: $4.00 3 items: $4.50 4 items: $5.00 How can you sell books so cheaply? The books we sell are known as bargain books. They are books that either are overstocks from the publishers or ones that went out to a Christian bookstore or major department store and were returned to the publisher when they did not sell. 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