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Tables of Contents for The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
James C. Scott
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
14
Catherine McNicol Stock
Robert D. Johnston
I. Agrarian Legacies
Red Populism? T. A. Bland, Agrarian Radicalism, and the Debate over the Dawes Act
15
23
Benjamin Heber Johnson
African Americans, Community Building, and the Role of the State in Rural Reform in Texas, 1890s--1930s
38
28
Debra A. Reid
Land Monopoly, Agribusiness, and the State: Discovering the Family Farm in Twentieth-Century California
66
25
Victoria Saker Woeste
II. The Uses of the State and the Politics of the Dispossessed
The State of Nature: Country Folk, Conservationists, and Criminals at Yellowstone National Park, 1872--1908
91
22
Karl Jacoby
Fighting for Child Health: Race, Birth Control, and the State in the Jim Crow South
113
21
Johanna Schoen
``In America Life Is Given Away'': Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy
134
27
Cindy Hahamovitch
Ernesto Galarza, Mexican Immigration, and Farm Labor Organizing in Postwar California
161
28
Stephen Pitti
III. Constructing the Modern State
Accounting for Change: Farmers and the Modernizing State
189
24
Deborah Fitzgerald
Agrarian Intellectuals in a Democratizing State: A Collective Biography of USDA Leaders in the Intended New Deal
213
27
Jess Gilbert
An ``Enviable Tradition'' of Patriarchy: New Deal Investigations of Women's Work in the Amish Farm Family
240
18
Katherine Jellison
Remaking Red Bird: Isolation and the War on Poverty in a Rural Appalachian Locality
258
23
Robert S. Weise
IV. Contemporary Rural Politics
Call of the Mild: Colorado Ski Resorts and the Politics of Rural Tourism
281
23
Annie Gilbert Coleman
From the Heartland to Seattle: The Family Farm Movement of the 1980s and the Legacy of Agrarian State Building
304
23
Mary Summers
Notes on Contributors
327
4
Index
331