Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 305 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691135827
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128215818X
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1400828791
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9780691135823
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9781282158184
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9781400828791
Series Statement:
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Content:
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 voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Part
Content:
Food and power in the New Deal, 1933-42 -- Chaos, control, and country trucking, 1933-42 -- Food fights in war and peace, 1942-52 -- Trucking culture and politics in the agribusiness era, 1953-61 -- Beef trusts and asphalt cowboys -- The milkman and the milk hauler -- Agrarian trucking culture and deregulatory capitalism, 1960-80
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-291) and index
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hamilton, Shane, 1976- Trucking country Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008
Language:
English
URL:
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