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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