A Companion to American Agricultural History

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2 Series page BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY “Any library owning … Blackwell Companions will be a rich library indeed.” Reference Reviews This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Each volume comprises between twenty‐five and forty essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each volume is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. The Blackwell Companions to World History is a cornerstone of the overarching Companions to History series, covering World, British, American, and European History.

3 Title page A COMPANION TO AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Edited by R. Douglas Hurt Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

4 Copyright

5 Notes on Contributors

6 Introduction

7 Part I Regional 1 Native American Agriculture before European Contact 2 North American Colonial Agriculture 3 Early National America, 1789–1830: Laying the Foundation for Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Growth 4 Agricultural Power and Production in Antebellum America 5 Making the Rural Midwest: Commodities and Communities 6 The Great Plains 7 Post-Civil War Southern Agriculture 8 Three Eras of California Agriculture: Wheat, Specialty Crops, Cotton 9 American Indian Agriculture 10 Cities and Agriculture in America

8 Part II Science, Technology, and Environment 11 The Historians’ Corner: American Agricultural Science 12 Agricultural Technology 13 Plant Sciences: A Brief History 14 A Counterculture Agriculture: Organic Farming in a Commercial Food Age 15 Agricultural History’s Agroecological Turn

9 Part III Ethnicity and Gender 16 African Americans in Twentieth-Century Agriculture 17 Gender and Agriculture 18 Migrant Labor

10 Part IV Politics and Policy 19 Evolving Boundaries: “The People’s Department” across Three Centuries 20 Agrarian Reform: The Grange, the Farmers’ Alliance, and Populism 21 Agricultural Organization in the Twentieth Century: Progressives, Radicals, and Social Activists 22 The Development of American Agricultural Policy 23 Irrigation, Reclamation, and Water Rights 24 Consumers, Producers, and the Shifting Logic of Food Safety 25 Meatpacking 26 Agribusiness

11 Part V Culture 27 Rural Life 28 Agriculture and Art 29 Agriculture in US Literature 30 The Blues, Country Music, and American Agriculture 31 Agriculture and Film

12 Bibliography

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

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2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Secoton, an Algonquian...Figure 2.2 Algonquian fish harvesting...

3 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 Sharecropper Sam Williams...Figure 17.2 Large-scale, mechanized...

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2 Series page BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY “Any library owning … Blackwell Companions will be a rich library indeed.” Reference Reviews This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Each volume comprises between twenty‐five and forty essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each volume is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. The Blackwell Companions to World History is a cornerstone of the overarching Companions to History series, covering World, British, American, and European History.

3 Title page A COMPANION TO AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Edited by R. Douglas Hurt Purdue University West Lafayette, IN

4 Copyright

5 Table of Contents

6 Notes on Contributors

7 Begin Reading

8 Bibliography

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

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