Trucking Country : : The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy / / Shane Hamilton.
Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 5 halftones. 12 tables. 10 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Food and Power in the New Deal, 1933-42
- Chapter Two. Chaos, Control, and Country Trucking, 1933-42
- Chapter Three. Food Fights in War and Peace, 1942-52
- Chapter Four. Trucking Culture and Politics in the Agribusiness Era, 1953-61
- Chapter Five. Beef Trusts and Asphalt Cowboys
- Chapter Six. The Milkman and the Milk Hauler
- Chapter Seven. Agrarian Trucking Culture and Deregulatory Capitalism, 1960-80
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Note on Quantitative Data Sources
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Index