Fighting for the Farm: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

by Jane Adams

Book Overview

In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors--anthropologists and political scientists among them--analyze the political dynamics that have transformed agriculture in the United States and Canada since the 1920s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218302
• ISBN13: 9780812218305
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"