Title Page -- Copyright -- Civil society: historical and contemporary perspectives -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Community Agriculture and Local Food Systems -- Civic Agriculture -- Farming and Food Today -- A Place for Civic Agriculture -- Plan of the Book -- 2. From Subsistence to Production: How American Agriculture Was Made Modern -- Agriculture and Rural Life -- The Emergence of Modern Economic Forms -- Early Agricultural Development -- Three Agricultural Revolutions -- The Social Construction of Modern Economic Categories -- Civic Economy, Economic Embeddedness, and the Informal Economy -- The Civic/Embedded Economy in the United States -- 3. Going Global: The Industrialization and Consolidation of Agriculture and Food Production in the United States -- From Craft Production to Mass Production -- The Trend toward Concentration and Consolidation -- Changing Geography of Production -- Distancing: Separating Production and Consumption -- Control of Farmland -- Labor Intensification -- Supply Chains -- 4. The Global Supply Chain -- The Global Food System -- The Jolly Green Giant as a Corporate Migrant -- Grocery Wars -- Corporate Reach: The Men and Women behind the Food System -- Whither the Poor Consumer? -- 5. Toward a Civic Agriculture -- Moving toward Civic Agriculture -- Theoretical Underpinnings of Civic Agriculture -- Walter Goldschmidt's Landmark Study -- Production Districts -- Two Models of Agricultural Development -- Neoclassical Economics versus Pragmatism -- Production versus Development Frameworks -- Experimental Biology versus Ecological Biology -- Corporate versus Community Orientation -- Corporate Middle Class versus Independent Middle Class -- Political Processes and Power -- Motors for Change -- Civic Agriculture and Sustainable Agriculture -- Why Didn't Small Business Flourish?.

6. Civic Agriculture and Community Agriculture Development -- Profiling Civic Agriculture -- Community-Supported Agriculture -- Restaurant Agriculture -- Farmers' Markets -- Roadside Stands -- Urban Agriculture, City Farming, Community Gardens -- Measuring Civic Agriculture -- 7. From Commodity Agriculture to Civic Agriculture -- Commodity Agriculture -- Refashioning Farming to Fit the Marketplace -- Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community: Tools for Change -- Civic Agriculture: Moving from the Marketplace to the Community -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.