Joseph A. Amato (1938–2025)
Author of Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible
About the Author
Joseph A. Amato is Dean of Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota
Works by Joseph A. Amato
Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream (1993) 8 copies
Servants of the Land: God, Family & Farm : The Trinity of Belgain American Folkways in Southwest Minnesota (1990) 5 copies
Guilt and Gratitude: A Study of the Origins of Contemporary Conscience (Contributions in Philosophy) (1982) 2 copies
Community of strangers : change, turnover, turbulence & the transformation of a midwestern country town (1999) 2 copies
Countryside, mirror of ourselves: Essays about calling farmers names, living in the city, and other rural gleanings (1981) 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Amato, Joseph Anthony, II
- Birthdate
- 1938-08-31
- Date of death
- 2025-01-24
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Michigan (BA|History|1960)
Université de Laval (MA|History|1963)
University of Rochester (PhD|History|1970) - Occupations
- historian
- Organizations
- American Farm Project
Southwest Minnesota State University
Center for Rural and Regional Studies (founder) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Cottonwood, Minnesota, USA
Marshall, Minnesota, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- Minnesota, USA
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Reviews
Not the metaphysical essay that it claims to be - really a conservative history of technology's ability to improve the lives of those "less fortunate," particularly women and the working poor. I wish that Rebecca Solnit had written it.
3256. When Father and Son Conspire: A Minnesota Farm Murder, by Joseph Amato (Oct 16) This is about the double murder near Ruthton, Minnesota, on Set. 29, 1983, written by a professor at Southwest State U., Marshall, Minn. It concentrates more on the murderers than did the book on that crime by Andrew H. Malcolm (entitled Final Harvest: An American Tragedy), which spent much time on the victims' lives. I am not sure this event was worth reading two books about, but ,,,
2000 - Superficial? Seems overly broad and unsupported in its conclusions.
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Statistics
- Works
- 28
- Members
- 336
- Popularity
- #70,810
- Rating
- 2.9
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 48
- Languages
- 2