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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hamilton, Shane, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Truck drivers.
Rural conditions.
Economic history.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Camionneurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Truck drivers > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
United States > Economic conditions > 20th century.
United States > Rural conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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