The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State

, by Stock, Catherine McNicol; Johnston, Robert D.

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ISBN: 9780801487712 | 0801487714
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Copyright: 9/1/2001

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Supplemental Materials

Foreword

James C. Scott

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(14)

Catherine McNicol Stock

Robert D. Johnston

I. Agrarian Legacies

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

(23)

Benjamin Heber Johnson

African Americans, Community Building, and the Role of the State in Rural Reform in Texas, 1890s--1930s

(28)

Debra A. Reid

Land Monopoly, Agribusiness, and the State: Discovering the Family Farm in Twentieth-Century California

(25)

Victoria Saker Woeste

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

(22)

Karl Jacoby

Fighting for Child Health: Race, Birth Control, and the State in the Jim Crow South

113

(21)

Johanna Schoen

``In America Life Is Given Away'': Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy

134

(27)

Cindy Hahamovitch

Ernesto Galarza, Mexican Immigration, and Farm Labor Organizing in Postwar California

161

(28)

Stephen Pitti

III. Constructing the Modern State

Accounting for Change: Farmers and the Modernizing State

189

(24)

Deborah Fitzgerald

Agrarian Intellectuals in a Democratizing State: A Collective Biography of USDA Leaders in the Intended New Deal

213

(27)

Jess Gilbert

An ``Enviable Tradition'' of Patriarchy: New Deal Investigations of Women's Work in the Amish Farm Family

240

(18)

Katherine Jellison

Remaking Red Bird: Isolation and the War on Poverty in a Rural Appalachian Locality

258

(23)

Robert S. Weise

IV. Contemporary Rural Politics

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

281

(23)

Annie Gilbert Coleman

From the Heartland to Seattle: The Family Farm Movement of the 1980s and the Legacy of Agrarian State Building

304

(23)

Mary Summers

Notes on Contributors

327

(4)

Index

331

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