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Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti-New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era's agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change.

Agriculture and state --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- Land use --- Land reform --- Social scientists --- Farmers --- Social reformers --- Democratization --- Social change --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Political science --- New democracies --- Reformers --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Scientists --- Policy scientists --- Agrarian reform --- Economic policy --- Land use, Rural --- Social policy --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- Agriculture --- State and agriculture --- History --- Government policy --- Political activity --- New Deal (1933-1939) --- E-books --- Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- New Deal, 1933-1939.. --- Land use -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- Land reform -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- Social scientists -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- Farmers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.. --- Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

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"However urban the nation has become," Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston write, "twenty percent of its citizens still live outside major metropolitan areas. Moreover, rural economic activity-agricultural, extractive, recreational, and industrial-has an enormous impact on the nation's overall economic well-being. The stories of contemporary rural people still have the power to move us.... They reflect the values, dreams, and ideals at the core of the economically, racially, and ethnically diverse American experience."The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors examine African American progressive farm organizers; the experiences of Caribbean and Mexican farm laborers; agrarian intellectuals in the New Deal; the politics of land and landscape in the Rocky Mountain west; and the origins of today's rural political movements.

Populism --- Agricultural laborers --- Political science --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- History. --- United States --- Rural conditions.

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