The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801487714 ISBN 13 : 9780801487712

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2001

Synopsis

"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside major metropolitan areas. Moreover, rural economic activity--agricultural, extractive, recreational, and industrial--has an enormous impact on the nation's overall economic well-being. The stories of contemporary rural people still have the power to move us.... They reflect the values, dreams, and ideals at the core of the economically, racially, and ethnically diverse American experience."

The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors examine African American progressive farm organizers; the experiences of Caribbean and Mexican farm laborers; agrarian intellectuals in the New Deal; the politics of land and landscape in the Rocky Mountain west; and the origins of today's rural political movements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Catherine McNicol Stock is Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History at Connecticut College. She is coeditor of The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, also from Cornell, and the author of Main Street in Crisis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801487714
• ISBN 13: 9780801487712
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Stock Catherine McNicol, Johnston Robert D.
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