 | The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth century. Catherine McNicol Stock is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College. She is the author of Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains and Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain , also from Cornell. Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. He is the coeditor, with Burton J. Bledstein, of The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class . |
