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Fighting for the Farm : Rural America Transformed
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- Summary
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Explores the political dimensions of North American agriculture.
Details
- Creator
- Jane Adams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780812201031, 0812201035
- OCLC
- ocn979630796
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies -- 2 The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley -- 3 From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies -- 4 The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri -- 5 The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups -- Part II Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy -- 6 The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press -- 7 Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State -- 8 The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture -- 9 The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 19805 -- Part III The Political Implications of Daily Life -- 10 The Entrepreneurial Self Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community -- 11 Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture -- Part IV The Politics of the Environment -- 12 Canadian Agricultural Policy Liberal, Global, and Sustainable -- 13 Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse -- 14 Eating in the Gardens of Gaia Envisioning Polycultural Communities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments