Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index.
Regions of rural America. The Northeast -- The Mid-Atlantic -- The South -- The Midwest -- The Great Plains -- The Intermountain West -- The Pacific Coast -- Rural lives in context. Rural women -- Rural childhood and youth -- Masculinity in a rural context -- Education in a rural context -- Race in a rural context -- Communal societies in a rural context -- Anabaptist communities -- Change and development. Urban - rural tensions, 1880-1930 -- Rural depopulation -- Technological change -- The rural environment -- Rural labor -- the international context for rural America -- Resources for scholars and teachers. Sources for the researcher -- Teaching rural history in an urban age -- Reading rural structures and landscapes