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Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253015389
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plowed UnderDDC classification:
  • 338.1/97309043
LOC classification:
  • HD1761 -- .W427 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The New Deal Vision for Agriculture -- 2 Milk Dumping across America's Dairyland -- 3 Playing "Housewife" in Polonia -- 4 Hunger on the Highway in the Cotton South -- 5 Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The New Deal Vision for Agriculture -- 2 Milk Dumping across America's Dairyland -- 3 Playing "Housewife" in Polonia -- 4 Hunger on the Highway in the Cotton South -- 5 Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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