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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hamilton, Shane, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Truck drivers > United States > History.
Camionneurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Economic history
Rural conditions
Truck drivers
United States > Rural conditions.
United States > Economic conditions > 20th century.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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