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The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State - by  Catherine McNicol Stock & Robert D Johnston (Hardcover) - 1 of 1

The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State - by Catherine McNicol Stock & Robert D Johnston (Hardcover)

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  • "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.
  • About the Author: Catherine McNicol Stock is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College.
  • 352 Pages
  • History, Social History

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This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century.



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"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.



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An excellent collection of well-argued and provocative essays. It has much to tell us about rural America in the twentieth century and suggests the rich possibilities for still more rural history.

--David E. Hamilton, University of Kentucky "The Journal of American History"

Attempting to offer a view of the variety of American agrarian experience, this edited volume includes treatments of Native Americans, African Americans, Caribbean and Mexican farm workers, Amish women and Applachian mountaineers.

-- "Public Administration Review"



About the Author



Catherine McNicol Stock is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College. She is the author of Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains and Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain, also from Cornell. Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. He is the coeditor, with Burton J. Bledstein, of The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.46 Inches (H) x 6.38 Inches (W) x 1.05 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.39 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Social History
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Catherine McNicol Stock & Robert D Johnston
Language: English
Street Date: September 25, 2001
TCIN: 1006741251
UPC: 9780801438509
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-2633
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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