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A Companion to American Agricultural History
R. Douglas Hurt (Edited by)
9781119632221, Wiley
Hardback, published 24 May 2022
608 pages
25.6 x 18.5 x 4.3 cm, 1.497 kg
Provides a solid foundation for understanding American agricultural history and offers new directions for research A Companion to American Agricultural History addresses the key aspects of America's complex agricultural past from 8,000 BCE to the first decades of the twenty-first century. Bringing together more than thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars, this innovative volume presents a succinct and accessible overview of American agricultural history while delivering a state-of-the-art assessment of modern scholarship on a diversity of subjects, themes, and issues. The essays provide readers with starting points for their exploration of American agricultural history—whether in general or in regards to a specific topic—and highlights the many ways the agricultural history of America is of integral importance to the wider American experience. Individual essays trace the origin and development of agricultural politics and policies, examine changes in science, technology, and government regulations, offer analytical suggestions for new research areas, discuss matters of ethnicity and gender in American agriculture, and more. This Companion: A Companion to American Agricultural History is an essential resource for introductory students and general readers seeking a concise overview of the subject, and for graduate students and scholars wanting to learn about a particular aspect of American agricultural history.
Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Part I Regional 3 1 Native American Agriculture before European Contact 5 2 North American Colonial Agriculture 23 3 Early National America, 1789-1830: Laying the Foundation for Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Growth 37 4 Agricultural Power and Production in Antebellum America 47 5 Making the Rural Midwest: Commodities and Communities 60 6 The Great Plains 75 7 Post-Civil War Southern Agriculture 89 8 Three Eras of California Agriculture: Wheat, Specialty Crops, Cotton 102 9 American Indian Agriculture 115 10 Cities and Agriculture in America 129 Part II Science, Technology, and Environment 145 11 The Historians' Corner: American Agricultural Science 147 12 Agricultural Technology 161 13 Plant Sciences: A Brief History 175 14 A Counterculture Agriculture: Organic Farming in a Commercial Food Age 188 15 Agricultural History's Agroecological Turn 200 Part III Ethnicity and Gender 213 16 African Americans in Twentieth-Century Agriculture 215 17 Gender and Agriculture 229 18 Migrant Labor 244 Part IV Politics and Policy 255 19 Evolving Boundaries: "The People's Department" across Three Centuries 257 20 Agrarian Reform: The Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, and Populism 272 21 Agricultural Organization in the Twentieth Century: Progressives, Radicals, and Social Activists 286 22 The Development of American Agricultural Policy 300 23 Irrigation, Reclamation, and Water Rights 314 24 Consumers, Producers, and the Shifting Logic of Food Safety 327 25 Meatpacking 341 26 Agribusiness 354 Part V Culture 371 27 Rural Life 373 28 Agriculture and Art 389 29 Agriculture in US Literature 409 30 The Blues, Country Music, and American Agriculture 421 31 Agriculture and Film 436 Bibliography 453 Index 551
R. Douglas Hurt
Gayle Fritz
Taylor Spence
James L. Huston
Kelly Houston Jones
J.L. Anderson
Thomas D. Isern
Jeannie Whayne
David Vaught
David H. DeJong
Andrew C. Baker
Alan I Marcus
Paul Nienkamp
Karen-Beth G. Scholthof
David D. Vail
Mark D. Hersey and Albert G. Way
Cherisse Jones-Branch
Sara Egge
Nancy Gabin
Anne Effland
Connie L. Lester
Nancy K. Berlage
Jonathan Coppess
Brian Q. Cannon
Kendra Smith-Howard
Wilson J. Warren
Peter A. Coclanis
Megan Birk
Travis Nygard
Kathryn C. Dolan
Joseph M. Thompson
Debra A. Reid
Sara E. Morris
Subject Areas: History [HB]
