Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Introduction 1
4. Part I North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies
5. 2 The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley 25
6. 3 From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies 47
7. 4 The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri 75
8. 5 The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups 96
9. Part II Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy
10. 6 The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press 113
11. 7 Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State 129
12. 8 The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture 147
13. 9 The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 19805 160
14. Part III The Political Implications of Daily Life
15. 10 The Entrepreneurial Self Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community 175
16. 11 Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture 192
17. Part IV The Politics of the Environment
18. 12 Canadian Agricultural Policy Liberal, Global, and Sustainable 209
19. 13 Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse 229
20. 14 Eating in the Gardens of Gaia Envisioning Polycultural Communities 252
21. Notes 275
22. Bibliography 287
23. Contributors 325
24. Index 329
25. Acknowledgments 339