Fighting for the farm : rural America transformed / edited by Jane Adams.

Other author Adams, Jane (Jane H.)
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Descriptionvi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Agriculture--Economic aspects. --North America.
Agriculture--Economic aspects. --United States.
Agriculture--Economic aspects. --Canada.
Agriculture and state--United States.
Agriculture and state--Canada.
Agricultural credit--United States.
Agricultural credit--Canada.
Farms, Small--United States.
Farms, Small--Canada.
Agricultural innovations--Environmental aspects.
United States--Rural conditions.
Canada--Rural conditions.

Contents The social economy of development: the state of/and the Imperial Valley / Alan P. Rudy -- From the national policy to continentalism and globalization: the shifting context of Canadian agricultural policies / K. Murray Knuttila -- The contested terrain of swine production: deregulation and reregulation of corporate farming laws in Missouri / Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, J. Sanford Rikoon -- The contingent creation of rural interest groups / Miriam J. Wells -- The origin of the federal Farm Loan Act: issue emergence and agenda-setting in the progressive era print press / Stuart W. Shulman -- Low modernism and the agrarian New Deal: a different kind of state / Jess Gilbert -- The New Deal farm programs: looking for reconstruction in American agriculture / Mary Summers -- The U.S. farm financial crisis of the 1980s / Barry J. Barnett -- The entrepreneurial self: identity and morality in a midwestern farming community / Kathryn Marie Dudley -- Considerably more than vegetables, a lot less than community: the dilemma of community supported agriculture / Laura B. DeLind -- Canadian agricultural policy: liberal, global, and sustainable / Alan Hall -- Constructing genetic engineering in the food and fiber system as a problem: urban social movement organizations as players in agricultural discourse / Ann Reisner -- Eating in the gardens of Gaia: envisioning polycultural communities / Harriet Friedmann.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.
LCCN 2002029145
ISBN0812236955 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0812218302 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HD1750 .F54 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold