The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State write by Catherine McNicol Stock. This book was released on 2018-05-31. The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation
The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation write by Steven Hahn. This book was released on 2018-06-15. The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history. The essays cover a broad range of topics: the character and consequences of manufacturing and consumerism in the antebellum countryside of the Northeast; the transition from slavery to freedom in Southern plantation and nonplantation regions; the dynamics of community-building and inheritance among Midwestern native and immigrant farmers; the panorama of rural labor systems in the Far West; and the experience of settled farming communities in periods of slowed economic growth. The central theme is the complex and often conflicting development of commercial and industrial capitalism in the American countryside. Together the essays place rural societies within the context of America's "Great Transformation."
Social History of the United States [10 volumes]
Social History of the United States [10 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social History of the United States [10 volumes] write by Brian Greenberg. This book was released on 2008-10-23. Social History of the United States [10 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ten-volume encyclopedia explores the social history of 20th-century America in rich, authoritative detail, decade by decade, through the eyes of its everyday citizens. Social History of the United States is a cornerstone reference that tells the story of 20th-century America, examining the interplay of policies, events, and everyday life in each decade of the 1900s with unmatched authority, clarity, and insight. Spanning ten volumes and featuring the work of some of the foremost social historians working today, Social History of the United States bridges the gap between 20th-century history as it played out on the grand stage and history as it affected—and was affected by—citizens at the grassroots level. Covering each decade in a separate volume, this exhaustive work draws on the most compelling scholarship to identify important themes and institutions, explore daily life and working conditions across the economic spectrum, and examine all aspects of the American experience from a citizen's-eye view. Casting the spotlight on those whom history often leaves in the dark, Social History of the United States is an essential addition to any library collection.
Reopening the Frontier
Reopening the Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reopening the Frontier write by Brian Q. Cannon. This book was released on 2009. Reopening the Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first ever history of the post-World War II homesteading program that provided frontier land to returning veterans. Reveals the many challenges they faced--and how they helped change our perceptions of the modern American West.
Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK
Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK write by Mark Shucksmith. This book was released on 2012-02-27. Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people and communities continue to contribute to national identity, economic development and social solidarity, as well as to environmental quality. Contributors explore the degree to which rural people exhibit agency and autonomy, rather than being merely passive in the face of exogenous forces of change in a globalised world. They also illuminate very different policy approaches to rural policy in two advanced capitalist societies often thought to be similar, and show how fundamental differences in rural policy approaches of the US and the UK are based on different social ideologies and values that shape policies relating to rural areas. This book will help to stimulate transatlantic dialogue on rural scholarship and rural policy analysis, while also contributing to theory and policy development. It will be of interest to researchers, students and everyone involved in the policy and practice of rural development.
