The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State
Subtitle: Political Histories of Rural America
Contributors: Catherine McNicol Stock (Editor); Robert D. Johnston (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801438509
Subjects: American history; Political science & theory; Rural communities; United States; Populism; History & Theory - General; Political Science; Sociology; Sociology - Rural; Politics/International Relations; USA; Rural conditions; Social History; United States - General; History; Agricultural laborers
First sentence: For most of the 1990s, the great debate that framed the Cold War world the role of the modern state in regulating economic, social, and political cultureappeared to be over.