The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State : Political Histories of Rural America / Robert D. Johnston, Catherine McNicol Stock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Robert D., editor.

Stock, Catherine McNicol, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Populism--United States--History.

Populism.

Agricultural laborers--United States--History.

Agricultural laborers.

United States--Rural conditions.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Scott, James C.

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Stock, Catherine McNicol / Johnston, Robert D.

I. AGRARIAN LEGACIES

Red Populism? T. A. Bland, Agrarian Radicalism, and the Debate over the Dawes Act / 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

The State of Nature. Country Folk, Conservationists, and Criminals at Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1908 / 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

Accounting for Change: Farmers and the Modernizing 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

Call of the Mild: Colorado Ski Resorts and the Politics of Rural Tourism / 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

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1773-1

OCLC:

1080549304