The politics of food supply
Subtitle: U.S. agricultural policy in the world economy
By: Bill Winders ; foreword by James C. Scott.
Series: Yale agrarian studies series; Yale agrarian studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780300139242
Subjects: Food supply -- Political aspects -- United States; Agriculture and state -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Agriculture between state and market; title: The early battles lost: reaching for regulation, 1920-1932; title: Winning supply management: a new deal for agriculture, 1933-1945; title: Shifting agricultural coalitions: sliding back toward the free market, 1945-1975; title: The decline of the South: changing power within U.S. agriculture, 1945-1975; title: Agriculture and the changing world economy: the U.S. food regime, 1945-1990; title: The 1996 FAIR Act: changing U.S. agricultural policy.