Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- I. North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies -- 2. The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley -- 3. From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies -- 4. The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri -- 5. The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups -- II. Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy -- 6. The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press -- 7. Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State -- 8. The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture -- 9. The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s -- III. The Political Implications of Daily Life -- 10. The Entrepreneurial Self: Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community -- 11. Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture -- IV. The Politics of the Environment -- 12. Canadian Agricultural Policy: Liberal, Global, and Sustainable -- 13. Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse -- 14. Eating in the Gardens of Gaia: Envisioning Polycultural Communities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.