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• Rolling Stores
• Anything She Could Sell
• The Chicken Business
• Professional Paradoxes
• Women in the Middle
• From Feed Bags to Fashion.

Black and white farm women as consumers, producers, and agents of change; Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change. As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the ""butter and egg trade"" - small-scale dairying and raising chickens. Their earnings provided a crucial margin of economic safety for many families during the 1920s and 1930s and offered women some independence from their men folks. These innovative women showed that poultry production paid off and laid the foundation for the agribusiness poultry industry that emerged after World War II. Jones also examines the relationships between farm women and home demonstration agents and the effect of government-sponsored rural reform. She discusses the professional culture that developed among white agents as they reconciled new and old ideas about women's roles and shows that black agents, despite prejudice, linked their clients to valuable government resources and gave new meanings to traditions of self-help, mutual aid, and racial uplift.
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• The disappearance of agricultural land: fact or fiction? / Bruce R. Beattie
• Land trusts: a return to feudalism / Roger Meiners and Bruce Yandle
• Taxation, free markets, and the use of agricultural land / Richard E. Wagner
• The political economy of land conversion on the urban fringe / Samuel R. Staley
• Some issues surrounding land and chemical use in agriculture / B. Delworth Gardner
• Biotechnology, land-use, and the environment: untying the Gordian knot / Henry I. Miller
• To breed, or not to breed? The question of endangered species and agriculture / Ike C. Sugg
• Agriculture and water markets / Terry L. Anderson and Clay J. Landry.

The authors focus on the major environmental constraints that limit U.S. food production without necessarily improving environmental quality. Each chapter documents a specific issue, discusses the regulatory response, and offers ideas for reform.
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• "Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes
• "A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby
• "Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless
• Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker
• African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim
• Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne
• "I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne
• Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis, Bryant Simon.

During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable.
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• The world food problem
• Mexico's way out
• A continent of peasants
• We shall release the waters
• A very big, very poor country
• A parable of seeds
• You can't eat steel
• The meaning of famine
• The conquest of hunger
• Present at the re-creation.

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. "Where Communism goes, hunger follows" was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This "green revolution" has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia's economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa's economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today's missions to feed a hungry world.
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• New and old forestry: a confrontation in the making
• Shaping an ecological forestry program
• The national response to ecological forestry
• Ecological forestry in the states
• The Pennsylvania story: missed opportunities
• The skirmishes become a full-scale war
• In search of the future forest.

Wars in the Woods examines the conflicts that have developed over the preservation of forests in America, and how government agencies and advocacy groups have influenced the management of forests and their resources for more than a century. Samuel Hays provides an astute analysis of manipulations of conservation law that have touched off a battle between what he terms ""ecological forestry"" and ""commodity forestry."" Hays also reveals the pervading influence of the wood products industry, and the training of the U.S. Forest Service to value tree species marketable as wood products, as the primary forces behind forestry policy since the Forest Management Act of 1897. ""Wars in the Woods"" gives a comprehensive account of the many grassroots and scientific organizations that have emerged since then to combat the lumber industry and other special interest groups and work to promote legislation to protect forests, parks, and wildlife habitats. It also offers a review of current forestry practices, citing the recent federal easing of protections as a challenge to the progress made in the last third of the twentieth century. Hays describes an increased focus on ecological forestry in areas such as biodiversity, wildlife habitat, structural diversity, soil conservation, watershed management, native forests, and old growth. He provides a valuable framework for the critical assessment of forest management policies and the future study and protection of forest resources.
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