Fighting for the farm
Subtitle: rural America transformed
By: edited by Jane Adams.
Contributors: Adams, Jane
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: The social economy of development: the state of/and the Imperial Valley / Alan P. Rudy; title: From the national policy to continentalism and globalization: the shifting context of Canadian agricultural policies / K. Murray Knuttila; title: The contested terrain of swine production: deregulation and reregulation of corporate farming laws in Missouri / Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, and J. Sanford Rikoon; title: The contingent creation of rural interest groups / Miriam J. Wells; title: The origin of the federal Farm Loan Act: issue emergence and agenda-setting in the progressive era print press / Stuart W. Shulman; title: Low modernism and the agrarian New Deal: a different kind of state / Jess Gilbert; title: The New Deal farm programs: looking for reconstruction in American agriculture / Mary Summers; title: The U.S. farm financial crisis of the 1980s / Barry J. Barnett; title: The entrepreneurial self: identity and morality in a midwestern farming community / Kathryn Marie Dudley; title: Considerably more than vegetables, a lot less than community: the dilemma of community supported agriculture / Laura B. DeLind; title: Canadian agricultural policy: liberal, global, and sustainable / Alan Hall; title: Constructing genetic engineering in the food and fiber system as a problem: urban social movement organizations as players in agricultural discourse / Ann Reisner; title: Eating in the gardens of Gaia: envisioning polycultural communities / Harriet Friedmann.