Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Abbreviations xxiii
7. CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1
8. PART I. Creating State Intervention
9. CHAPTER 2. The Early Battles Lost 31
10. CHAPTER 3. Winning Supply Management 51
11. PART II. The Politics of Retrenchment
12. CHAPTER 4. Shifting Agricultural Coalitions 77
13. CHAPTER 5. The Decline of the South 105
14. CHAPTER 6 Agriculture and the Changing World Economy 129
15. Epilogue 194
16. Appendix. Notes on Methods and Data 207
17. Notes 213
18. Bibliography 249
19. Index 265