The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America

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Titel: The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State : Political Histories of Rural America

Enthält: Frontmatter -- / Scott, James C. --
Acknowledgments -- / Stock, Catherine McNicol / Johnston, Robert D. --
I. AGRARIAN LEGACIES -- / Johnson, Benjamin Heber --
African Americans, Community Building, and the Role of the State in Rural Reform in Texas, 1890s-1930 / Reid, Debra A. --
Land Monopoly, Agribusiness, and the State: Discovering the Family Farm in Twentieth-Century California / Woeste, Victoria Saker --
II. THE USES OF THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF THE DISPOSSESSED -- / Jacoby, Karl --
Fighting for Child Health: Race, Birth Control, and the State in the Jim Crow South / Schoen, Johanna --
"In America Life Is Given Away": Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy / Hahamovitch, Cindy --
Ernesto Galarza, Mexican Immigration, and Farm Labor Organizing in Postwar California / Pitti, Stephen --
III. CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN STATE -- / Fitzgerald, Deborah --
Agrarian Intellectuals in a Democratizing State: A Collective Biography of USDA Leaders in the Intended New Deal / Gilbert, Jess --
An "Enviable Tradition" of Patriarchy: New Deal Investigations of Women's Work in the Amish Farm Family / Jellison, Katherine --
Remaking Red Bird: Isolation and the War on Poverty in a Rural Appalachian Locality / Weise, Robert S. --
IV. CONTEMPORARY RURAL POLITICS -- / Gilbert Coleman, Annie --
From the Heartland to Seattle: The Family Farm Movement of the 1980s and the Legacy of Agrarian State Building / Summers, Mary --
Notes on Contributors --

Beteiligte: Johnston, Robert D. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Stock, Catherine McNicol [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]

Erschienen: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource; 7 tables, 4 halftones, 1 map

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.7591/9781501717734

ISBN: 9781501717734

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Schlagwörter: Agricultural laborers United States History ; Populism United States History ; Agricultural laborers. ; Populism. ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: "However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside major metropolitan areas. Moreover, rural economic activity—agricultural, extractive, recreational, and industrial—has an enormous impact on the nation's overall economic well-being. The stories of contemporary rural people still have the power to move us.... They reflect the values, dreams, and ideals at the core of the economically, racially, and ethnically diverse American experience."The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors examine African American progressive farm organizers; the experiences of Caribbean and Mexican farm laborers; agrarian intellectuals in the New Deal; the politics of land and landscape in the Rocky Mountain west; and the origins of today's rural political movements.

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