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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hurt, R. Douglas, author. Title: A companion to American agricultural history / edited by R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue University West Lafayette, IN. Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022. | Series: Wiley Blackwell companions to American history | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021037403 (print) | LCCN 2021037404 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119632221 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119632184 (epdf) | ISBN 9781119632245 (epub) | ISBN 9781119632214 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Agriculture–United States–History. Classification: LCC S441 .H9195 2022 (print) | LCC S441 (ebook) | DDC 338.10973–dc23/eng/20211007 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037403LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037404
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Contents
1 Cover
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